The Texas Redistricting Plan
The Washington Post rails today against the new Texas redistricting plan in The Soviet Republic of Texas . After explaining the details of the plan, and the unfairness of it, the Post asks:
Do Texans really want a polarized delegation of 22 conservative Republicans and 10 liberal Democrats, as the current plan envisions? Do they really want a state with a white party and a minority party? Republican politicians are engineering it that way, whatever voters may want. For redistricting -- quite the inverse of elections -- is a process in which politicians get to choose their voters. It is a process that a healthy democracy would seek to reform.
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