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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Watching Prop 50 in CA. People opposed say it’s not right but support TX doing it. Trump being the biggest hypocrite here. Can someone please explain their reasoning? Not their sound bites, their arguments. Or do they have real arguments? [/quote]

I don't really care if they do it or don't, but it's the results.

Have you looked at the maps.  All the Texas maps look pretty natural and geographically plausible.  California maps have all of these long districts with thin corridors connecting small urban areas to remote rural regions.  Much like MD's district eight.  Same for Louisianna and the other Southern districts that are now being contested.  I mean geographically the Republican's districts seem to make much more sense.

The only one in Texas that looks kind of weird is when they connected the two cities together.  But that kind of makes sense, they aren't that far apart and will have similar interests.

When the Republicans did it these didn't lead to "swing" districts, they lead to stable Republican districts stable Democrat districts.  I think California stretched much further.

In the long run I think it'll lead to some unexpected wins for Republican's in California from time to time, that's the thing about Gerrymandering.  It's not a guarantee, those will likely be competitive districts.

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