BREAKING: PA Supreme Court issues new map

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17. Well what happened was

when they drew what became the 2011 map, they carved districts around and through smaller cities like Chester and Reading and Harrisburg and Easton, and then swung the districts where they put those cities, to far flung nether lands of the state in order to capture rural votes, tilting the final district makeup to (R). The ridiculous PA-7 reached the point of extremes in doing that. And having the current PA-10 start in Central PA and end by wrapping around the NE corner of the state, is another example.

When you return those cities geographically to their surrounding areas, the whole dynamic changes.

And as a note on Sam's map. The one bright area on the east-central side of the state that was not identified, appears to be Allentown, Bethlehem, & Easton (Lehigh Valley) and the other SE of Harrisburg is probably Lancaster.