What are the most gerrymandered/weirdest

[Rob E Dangerously]

Here in Missouri, we don't get that stuff.. but..

 

here's the site: http://nationalatlas.gov/congdistprint.html

 

All credit to South Carolina for making their District 1 less crazy. The book I have with 90s districts makes it look like a mushroom going inland from Charleston to Berkeley county and on the coast. The current district looks more sane.

 

The all stars of weird:

 

Alabama-6:

 

 

Arizona-2:

 

 

California-46:

 

 

Georgia-8:

 

 

Georgia-11:

 

 

Illinois-4:

 

(this has to be illegal)

 

Louisiana-2:

 

 

Maryland-2:

 

 

Maryland-3:

 

 

North Carolina-3:

 

 

North Carolina-12:

 

 

I'm sure i'm ignoring some all-stars in Texas..

 

note to district drawers: it's possible to make a district which doesn't look like an LSD trip, this one's to you Georgia!

[Styles]

Interesting that Maryland is mentioned twice. My district (the 8th) was recently gerrymandered to include a good chunk of our neighboring county, which is heavily Democratic and minority before the 02 election, which led to the 8 term Republican Congresswoman (almost liberal, and very popular in the disctrict obviously) being unseated by a generally poor candidate who had a D next to his name because the new part of the disctrict wasn't familiar with her. It basically has eliminated the chances for any Republican being elected (which sucks because I really like the candidate this year).

[Rob E Dangerously]

Actually.. I eliminated Maryland's 8th district due to the fact that I had like 14 districts at first

[teke184]

If you want to see a gerrymandered district, see if you can find the Louisiana 4th District from the mid-90s. It was shaped like a "Z" and stretched from Shreveport to Monroe to Baton Rouge to Bogalusa.

 

It was around that time that Cleo Fields (D-Baton Rouge) began to be referred to as "Zorro" because the district was gerrymandered to give him a seat.

 

 

 

As for William Jefferson's 2nd District, it's a tradeoff. The state would get sued if there was no majority black district, so William Jefferson gets an eternal seat because Orleans Parish itself has around the number of people needed for a Congressional district (roughly 700,000) and the city of New Orleans itself is like 90% black. (Most white people have moved to the suburbs in places such as Jefferson Parish and St. Bernard Parish.)

[Rob E Dangerously]

I'm still sorta conflicted on the idea of a "majority black" district.. sure, it's nice.. but it also probably doesn't help the Democratic party by putting a heavily Democratic group in just one district.

 

Louisiana is on to something with having elections in Saturday. That's something the rest of this country should think about trying

[Stephen Joseph]

They fight about it every time this comes up.

 

Georgia, by far

[Slayer]

 

Isn't this the same district that was declared illegal by...whoever decides these things are illegal?

[kkktookmybabyaway]

Neat little Web site.

 

Here's the district that surrounds me.

 

 

And here's the one I'm in (at least I think so...)

 

[Slayer]

 

I'm glad I live in a fairly normal looking district

[kkktookmybabyaway]

Well you all vote one way anyway, so what's the big deal?...

[DerangedHermit]

The one I vote in:

 

This one is screwed up a little bit...

[Red Baron]

 

Even though I don't live in USA, this would be the area closest to me, well Buffalo is, but I don't like Buffalo

[The Czech Republic]

Illinois-4:

 

(this has to be illegal)

This is Chicago we're talking about, it only gets worse in terms of illegality.

[therealworldschampion]

Here's my district, still the same even after I moved to the eastern side of the state: