Saturday, July 23, 2011

Gerrymandered Districts

The Awl features some screwed up districts:

To create a Hispanic-majority district in the Chicagoland suburbs, the state of Illinois combined a Puerto Rican neighborhood with a distant Mexican neighborhood via a nonresidential strip of Interstate 294. The problem? The highway is eight miles west of either enclave.
I really find it humorous when they trace down highway right-of-ways to connect pieces of districts.  How can you go miles where nobody lives? 

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