• GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Gerrymandering wasn’t a talking point until the unprecedented Republican wins in the 2010 election

    Uh, it’s been a talking point for over 200 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering

    The word gerrymander (originally written Gerry-mander; a portmanteau of the name Gerry and the animal salamander) was used for the first time in the Boston Gazette[b] on 26 March 1812 in