What's objectionable is that when one party has control of the districting, they will often try to arrange districts so that as many as possible contain party members as a majority but as few as possible contain the other party as a majority. This way, a 51% / 49% split could theoretically result in zero districts where the minority party has a chance of winning. --Dan On Jun 25, 2014, at 10:27 AM, meekerdb <meekerdb@verizon.net> wrote:
Keep in mind there are different ways of gerrymandering. The most common, as was common in California, is to make each district safe for its incumbent. So then districts tend to be heavily either Dems or Repugs, but since the law keeps the districts relatively even in population the legislature is proportioned in the same way as the populace. I'm not sure that's objectionable. It just makes primaries the important elections.