Partisan gerrymandering is returning to SCOTUS. A quick look at what the cases the Supreme Court agreed to hear are all about. https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/partisan-gerrymandering-back-supreme-court … #fairmaps #ncpol 1/
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For starters, in contrast to other cases where there is a factual battle over why maps ended up looking the way they did, in NC, there isn’t a question - Republicans said it. Out loud in public. On the floor of the legislature.
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And the maps worked as intended. Producing a 10-3 map even in a wave election like 2018 (with an asterisk by NC-9) despite the fact that Ds won nearly half the vote. As the chart below shows, that’s entirely predictable given the spreading out of GOP voters.
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To be sure, the 2016 map (below) was a little bit less effective of a partisan gerrymander than the 2011 racial gerrymander (above) - because black voters weren’t packed into districts - but it still has proven remarkably effective.
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