Wednesday, April 19, 2023

The Art of the Texas Gerrymander: U.S. House District 1

 Name that shape!

Newcomer Nathaniel Moran (R-Whitehorse) won the 2022 election by a landslide.



When Texas Republicans redrew their state’s congressional map earlier this year, they took what had been one of the most competitive and politically interesting maps in the country and, through discrimination against fast-growing racial and ethnic minorities, transformed it into one of the most boring and least dynamic. The Department of Justice sued Texas this week, alleging that the legislature’s gerrymander is intentionally racially discriminatory and violates the Voting Rights Act. We break down how Texas did it.

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