The coastal ones are the least suspect to me. The ones that split cities are the most.
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proposal: every individual privately owned plot chooses what district it wants to be in (also a cartographer job-security measure)
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This but nationally. Self selected voting tribes. You pick which one you join, you get one vote therein. The 435 most populous tribes get a seat to elect a candidate from amongst themselves to. Tribes could be based on profession, geography, Twitter followers, whatever
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A bizarre shape isn't in itself a sign of a corruption of the intent of the process, because people of shared interests might well be sorted in bizarre shapes.
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yes that's what I was saying
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Many of the bizarre shapes are specifically about lumping "demographically similar" people, where "demographically similar" means "of the same race", because of various Voting Rights Acts.
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On the other hand, sometimes it's about incumbent protection - California had a district in the 90s which had three arms, and a tiny little extension off one of the arms to include the incumbent congresscritter's house.
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but if you had to bet :D
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"Districts must be squares for reasons that will surely come to me."
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Then they’ll have some very satisfying answers for the Tribunal!
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