REPUBLICANS STARTED IT

[ihaveaquestion]

[JustAnotherGen]

1. This situation

Might be the tipping point into mass civil unrest.

Folks are heavily armed in Texas.

[Mr.WeRP]

2. It started long before Texas. This is the reason for the Voting Rights Act

This SCOTUS has already dismantled half of the VRA and are gunning to dismantle it entirely. The people executing the coup want total control over everything but make it appear as though this is what people want.

[yagotme]

3. Gerrymandering has been around since almost our country's founding.

The Texas rep's came here to Illinois, which is at the top of the list of most gerrymandered states.
https://iecam.illinois.edu/data-descriptions/geographic-region-congressional-districts

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Original cartoon of "The Gerry-Mander". This is the political cartoon that led to the coining of the term ''gerrymander'

Elkanah Tisdale (1771-1835) (often falsely attributed to Gilbert Stuart)[1]

https://www.masshist.org/database/1765 (That's a hard 'G' ! )

[ITAL]

5. And it even predated him

Even though Elbridge Gerry is most associated with it, I read an article once that said even when we were still British subjects, that the colonies would redraw district borders to be more favorable to the person or faction that was currently serving.

[NowsTheTime]

6. That doesn't makle it right, but if we're stuck with it, then both parties should cheat equally.

[ITAL]

7. I wasn't arguing right/wrong

Just that it's been with us since (before) the beginning.

[NowsTheTime]

8. Point taken