dion_starfire

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[โ€“] dion_starfire@sh.itjust.works 2 points 43 minutes ago

Except we're talking about Texas, where Democrats have never held enough power to do any significant gerrymandering. Assuming you're acting in good faith and not just a bot, is it possible that you're failing into the trap of assuming that because one of the most heavily gerrymandered districts (Texas 35th) is blue that Democrats did the gerrymandering?

They didn't. Republicans did, to pack as many blue votes into a single district as possible so multiple others around it could be red. If the districts were drawn fairly, the thin corridor connecting Austin and San Antonio would be red, and multiple districts above and below that corridor would be blue.

[โ€“] dion_starfire@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

That's because the person who had the solution removed their comment history, but the person who said thank you didn't.