Maryland’s sixth used to be pretty hilarious too. They put an urban center connected to an Appalachian rural expanse with a little corridor to drown out the rural votes. It’s a little less nonsensical nowadays though.
The third doesn’t look like that anymore btw. It’s a solid block now.
It used to be gerrymandered to fuck. It was only recently rectified.
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They were packing urban districts and cutting up rural districts to make safe seats. How the sixth and the eighth cut up Montgomery county to give it far flung rural districts was particularly funny. The first was a dedicated Republican seat so they purely packed the Eastern shore and other rural areas in it. Sixth used to be a Republican district before they packed urban Montgomery county into it. The sixth is competitive now that it doesn’t have a big chunk of Rockville in it.
“Squares”.
Maryland’s sixth used to be pretty hilarious too. They put an urban center connected to an Appalachian rural expanse with a little corridor to drown out the rural votes. It’s a little less nonsensical nowadays though.
The third doesn’t look like that anymore btw. It’s a solid block now.
They’re not even being subtle. What’s their excuse?
It’s not always gerrymandering. See my response to @[email protected].
LOL how is Maryland gerrymandered, isn’t it like 12 blocks?
It used to be gerrymandered to fuck. It was only recently rectified.
Old
New
They were packing urban districts and cutting up rural districts to make safe seats. How the sixth and the eighth cut up Montgomery county to give it far flung rural districts was particularly funny. The first was a dedicated Republican seat so they purely packed the Eastern shore and other rural areas in it. Sixth used to be a Republican district before they packed urban Montgomery county into it. The sixth is competitive now that it doesn’t have a big chunk of Rockville in it.
No. 3 is actually the opposite of gerrymandering. That “headphone district” connects two Latino communities https://youtu.be/A-4dIImaodQ?t=833