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whatthehey

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Thu Mar 26, 2015, 01:56 PM Mar 2015

Gerrymandering is 203 today

The name that is; the practice is slightly older.

This cartoon about Essex County's odd new shape under Governor Elbridge Gerry was published 3/26/1812. Editors likened the beast to a salamander and a term for the ages was coined.



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Gerrymandering is 203 today (Original Post) whatthehey Mar 2015 OP
I think it is a little different today. Notice that the lines are relatively straight and the jwirr Mar 2015 #1

jwirr

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1. I think it is a little different today. Notice that the lines are relatively straight and the
Thu Mar 26, 2015, 02:05 PM
Mar 2015

districts do not look like a winding trail through the middle of someone else's district.

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