Gerrymandering: Corruption Crippling the Country

If you've ever seen 435 Congress districts on the map so far, you might think that it resembles a huge jigsaw puzzle. These areas differ in size and shape. Unlike the county boundaries within the state, after the census is over, the parliament district changes every ten years. Why do they have to change completely? Then, the answer to this question will hear the same frustrating answer many times: this is politics. The official name of the act of changing parliamentary policy to change a party is "unjust". This is the reason for much debate and many adverse effects.

The answer lies in the custom called "geometry". There, the lawmakers attract parliamentary supporters to benefit their political parties. Since 2010, Republicans nationwide have systematically worked on Congressional maps and have implemented national plans to build deep-rooted majority in the House. Instead of choosing their representatives, Republican delegates choose their voters. The difference between the Republicans and the corrosive impact that it has on our democracy began with the US census. The House of Representatives has 433 seats. Each seat represents a parliamentary district that is divided by population by state. As the population changes, the parliament area will also be changed to ensure fair representation in the House.

Gerrymandering Regional Line - Congress and state laws - as old as our country. This is always a problem, both sides are guilty. For example, Democrats in California made a brutal disagreement with the Republican Party in 1980. In recent years, the Democratic Party is moving toward reform and the Republicans have doubled their division in an unprecedented way. And the Republican Party became a murderer in the House of Representatives. California withdrew from the Legislature in the last decade and handed it to the independent Citizenship Committee. As part of an alliance to promote the LGBT community, I participated in the 2011 citizen's subdivision process, and the committee did a wonderful job. Rather than cutting communities of concern, we will examine factors that people expect when drawing regional lines, such as creating geographical cohesion.

This is the third part of the FiveThirtyEight podcast series "The Gerrymandering Project". Here we travel throughout the country and explore the impact of Jerry Manding and what reformers are doing to change the reorganization process. This episode focuses on racial discrimination in North Carolina. Like today, the difference between partisans is not illegal, but racial discrimination is illegal. But this does not mean that everyone agrees with the composition of the genocide. The legal struggle for defining racial differences has been going on for decades, as the answer has great influence on each side.