2/ First, progressives love to complain about gerrymandering (not claiming that OP in this thread is a progressive; I have no idea, and I'm not attacking him, regardless), but a lot of gerrymandering is REQUIRED by various progressive legislative and court victories.
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13/ And, besides, when information traveled only as fast as the envelope in a courier bag under the armpit of a dispatch rider, there was really no other way to set up districts. Likewise when voting meant walking 2-5 miles to the nearest church or 5-10 miles to a courthouse.
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14/ But in 2020, will mail-in ballots (or even without, if you consider our ability to marshal and ship data around), there's no logistic reason that districts need to have minimized perimeters ... or even be contiguous! Here's an illustrative map of my demographicpic.twitter.com/8jLTLQhkTN
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15/ Why NOT make this a congressional district? Who CARES if they're contiguous? Why not seek to minimize some information distance when creating districts, not geographical distance?
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16/ I mean, I'm still mostly an ancap. I'd prefer no government at all, and competing polycentric legal system. ...but if we're going to have government, why seek to make the representative units geographically compact? Gerrymandering is Good; Q.E.D.
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While I'm sure you're right about the change in influence of geography, I'm not sure I agree that the influence has diminished so much that it's not really politically relevant anymore. Witness the Great Sorting.
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To the extent that geography is still relevant, a better option for minority (racial or political) representation is multi-member districts where everyone gets *one* vote. Having a three-seat district and allowing everyone to "vote for three" is the wrong way to do it.
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