I think this must have gotten missed in all the excitement (if it has been Diaried I couldn't find it), but the results of Republican gerrymandering are startling:
221 of 234 House districts currently held by a Republican are majority White (non-Hispanic).
Another factor behind Republican recalcitrance on immigration and similar issues is the simple racial math underlying many House congressional districts. According to U.S. Census data, only 13 out of 234 Republican-held districts are majority-minority (that is, districts where white non-Hispanics make up less than 50 percent of the population). That's about 5 percent of all Republican districts. In contrast, fully 49 percent of Democrat-held districts are majority-minority.
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I knew that gerrymandering had reached new heights since 2010 but I had no idea of the extent. 95%?
Could there be a clearer admission that the only way they can win is cheat?
As long as this is true, and personally I see little chance of it changing any time soon, there will be NO hope of movement on a long list of issues that primarily affect anybody not voting in these perversely-drawn cherry-picked districts. And with our politicized Supreme Court manning the barricades against any change in how districts are arranged...