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Let a computer draw the Congressional Districts maps, apportioned by population only. That is the only EQUAL way to do it. But ‘creating racially sensitive Districts’ is enshrined in our Laws now…..what racism?

Will the computers be managed by Dominion?

This is what "racially sensitive districts" looks like.

This is a new (gerrymandered around Corpus Christi) district created after the 2010 reapportionment.

It went 61-38 for Obama in 2012, 59-37 for Clinton in 2016, but 51-47 for Biden in 2020. It is the district that flipped to Republican for the first time in 150 years when the people voted for Mayra Flores in June.

Here is an example of a district that was gerrymandered racially.

Florida CD-5 = Al Lawson (D-Tallahassee)

He supposedly represents Tallahassee, but his district runs all the way to Jacksonville?

The problem with the district is that it is long and narrow, spanning from Tallahassee to Jacksonville. Districts should be compact so that the people being represented share common issues.

It's hard to imagine that the people of Tallahassee (western panhandle, FSU, state government workers) have the same issues as the people of Jacksonville (Atlantic coastal, seaport, densest Florida city).

Here is Dan Crenshaw's (R-TX) old gerrymandered district from 2010 (includes Humble, Memorial, Montrose, Rice University):

Here is Lizzie Fletcher's (D-TX) current district. She used to represent the wealthiest neighborhoods and the so-called Energy Corridor when she took the seat from longtime Republican Rep. John Culberson, but was just gerrymandered to the south, giving River Oaks, Memorial, Katy, and the Energy Corridor back to Republican representation.

Her new district includes the liberal Montrose and Rice University sections that used to be in Dan Crenshaw's district (Crenshaw moved northwest to take over The Woodlands), plus the Asian and Hispanic sections of Ft. Bend County.