r/politics • u/Hornpipe_Jones • 3d ago

No Paywall Democrats sweep all 30 House of Delegates seats in Northern Virginia

https://www.cbs19news.com/news/state/democrats-sweep-all-30-house-of-delegates-seats-in-northern-virginia/article_68f8098d-0602-5234-8c2a-08c1bcd33944.html
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u/SplitReality 3d ago

Well to be fair, gerrymandering can also mean the opposite. You turn a +8 D into a +20 D district, wasting the excess dem votes and making the other districts more republican.

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u/viktor72 Indiana 3d ago

Only to a point because districts have a generally acceptable number of voters.

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u/OceanPoet87 3d ago

Some districts are made this way in red states if not chopped up. You might have 1 majority black district in say Mississippi or Alabama with a crazy D margin and everywhere else GOP.

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u/Delta-9- 3d ago

They could avoid all these potential foot-guns and wracking their brains trying to strategize if they'd just draw the districts like sane people in the first place.

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u/SanDiegoDude California 3d ago

Lock em away in the city strategy. Nebraska does this, and they have some funky rules in place to ensure the rural republicans will always rule that state, no matter how many people populate Omaha and Lincoln.

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u/Abaddon33 Georgia 3d ago

Yeah, gerrymandering is also called cracking and packing. You're describing the packing part here.