Listening to the media, print, social and TV, one might think an electoral map can be drawn up to assure that certain outcomes will obtain for a given party.
So when the Texas governor assigns five new seats to the Republican party for the U.S. House of Representatives, it's a done deal.
And when Louisiana has 11 U.S. House seats and none of the elected Congressmen are Black, and yet 1/3 of the Louisiana population is Black, some have concluded district maps have been drawn to exclude Blacks from representation.
But how can you do that? Do Blacks not live side by side with Whites in Louisiana?
Apparently not.
The idea of manipulating maps, which reflect two dimensional geography to achieve an outcome in the composition of a Congressional delegation goes way back, to 1813 at least.
But how does that work now?
Well, many states are "Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and Alabama in between," and for large stretches of land, the people living on that land have predictable opinions and political preferences.
So look at the state of Virginia's Red/Blue election map from the governor's election this week. Virginia gets 11 seats in the House. If you said, we'll divide up those Blue counties (Northern Virgina, Richmond, Delmarva, Albermarle, Montgomery) into different 10 Congressional districts and we'll make all those rural red counties one seat, then Virginia would send 10 Democratic Representatives to Congress and the Republicans would get only one. Currently, Virginia sends 6 Democrats and 5 Republicans to Congress. So the Republicans could lose 4 seats with the right redistricting. And repeat that in other similarly divided states and control of Congress depends on how you draw the lines, not on actual representation of opinion.
That's the big problem for a Republic.
CODA:
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