Gerrymandering has sordid history as old as Constitution
Nothing new with Gerrymandering. It’s been going on since the beginning of our Republic.An interesting piece now at the Washington Times on Gerrymandering and worth a read. My old homestead county in rural Pennsylvania has been essentially Gerrymandering out of existence for any representation with miles outside the county included by any number of Representatives.
One item on the list our Founders should have given some additional thought to perhaps.
We’ve come a long way from the country’s first gerrymander, which involved two future presidents vying for election to the first Congress.
James Madison, the future No. 4, faced off against James Monroe, the future No. 5, in a district crafted by Patrick Henry specifically to be tough for Madison to win.
Henry, a committed anti-federalist, wanted to deny Madison any role in Congress. He hoped to wound the new government system, which he despised.
Madison pulled out a victory and went on to shepherd the Bill of Rights through Congress.
Henry operated at the bluntest level, adding whole counties to Virginia’s 5th Congressional District and deciding which ones to leave out.
As technology improves, gerrymandering has gained precision to the point that it has become a dark science, reducing people to their basest political, racial or cultural beings, often in the service of a political party’s power.
Just after the turn of the century, Arizona lawmakers drew a district that tracks the waters of the Colorado River for 40 miles as it flows through the Grand Canyon. It gained no voters but served as an electoral bridge before stretching out to encompass the Hopi reservation.
That district was a nod to centuries-old animosity between the Hopi and the Navajo, whose reservation surrounds the Hopi lands. This animosity forced the mapmakers to get creative to ensure that the two reservations had different representatives in Congress.
For former Rep. Steve Israel, a New Yorker who ran the Democrats’ House campaign committee from 2011 to 2015, the most extreme gerrymander became known as “Goofy kicking Donald Duck.”
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Source: https://bunkerville.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/gerrymandering-has-sordid-history-as-old-as-constitution/
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