Google’s Cool Congressional Redistricting Map — Which Shows How Thoroughly Texas Liberals Get Screwed
Very few people have ever used “cool” and “redistricting” in the same headline, but longtime readers will know that I’m a bit of a redistricting nerd — my first substantive political experience was as staffer in the Texas Legislature during a 1992 redistricting special session, and I’ve never quite recovered from walking into my first (absolutely literally) smoke-filled room in its waning days. Anyway, with this year’s post-Census line-drawing just about done (about whose implications you were warned in 2009), Google’s put together a handy map of new Congressional districts across the country:
For a good example of why redistricting’s so important in determining the make-up of Congress, let’s zoom in on lovely Austin, Texas — a liberal hub in a conservative state:
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