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Blumancru

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7. Yep. If you create more red districts, you have to get those red voters from somewhere.

Reply to House of Roberts (Reply #5)

Fri Dec 12, 2025, 08:56 AM

Dec 12

And that ends up making other districts a bit more blue.
The irony is that the states where Gerrymandering is being done are pretty well Gerrymandered in the first place, so redistricting may bite them on their own ample posterior.

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