{"id":1833848,"date":"2024-08-31T20:57:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T00:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1833848"},"modified":"2024-09-06T10:58:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T14:58:58","slug":"the-map-men-on-gerrymandering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/08\/the-map-men-on-gerrymandering\/","title":{"rendered":"The Map Men on Gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Weird maps win elections - Gerrymandering explained\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cwBslntC3xg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cwBslntC3xg\">The Map Men look at gerrymandering on U.S. electoral district maps<\/a>. A reasonably comprehensive primer on the subject even if comes from a couple of Brits baffled by the subject. And they finish with a surprisingly sharp point: gerrymanderers wouldn\u2019t know how to draw maps like these if voting intentions weren\u2019t predictable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Map Men look at gerrymandering on U.S. electoral district maps. A reasonably comprehensive primer on the subject even if comes from a couple of Brits baffled by the subject. And they finish with a&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/08\/the-map-men-on-gerrymandering\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[1422,535,617],"class_list":["post-1833848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-politics","tag-election-maps","tag-gerrymandering","tag-map-men","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1791870,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/10\/a-redistricting-roundup\/","url_meta":{"origin":1833848,"position":0},"title":"A Redistricting Roundup","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"12 October 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"Gerrymandering in Texas The New York Times and Texas Monthly look at the bizarre shapes in the new congressional electoral map of Texas, which gains two new representatives. 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The mapmakers, not so much. Check out this\u00a0New York Times article on the political consultants who do the redrawing; it focuses on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1784864,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/01\/school-district-maps-and-segregation\/","url_meta":{"origin":1833848,"position":2},"title":"School District Maps and Segregation","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"26 January 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Gerrymandering isn't just about congressional districts. Earlier this month, Vox\u2019s Alvin Chang explored how school district borders are drawn\u2014and whether they simply reflect existing neighbourhood racial segregation, exacerbate it, or reduce it. Because they can do any one of these things. 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