A reader writes regarding my provision of a source for finding out about future gerrymandering with a personal experience:
The city of Chaska[, Minnesota] was horribly gerrymandered when we lived there. It still is today, but less so. For the curious, look at the linked map. Notice that the downtown section, bottom center, is split between 2 wards. It used to be split between 3 or 4 of them. It really should be not split at all. But doing that gives the “up the hill” suburban types all the power to fuck things up, regardless of the amount of opposition from the downtown folks.
Oh, a link to that map. Sorry.
The problem of representative democracies, at least in my mind, is how to be representative, isn’t it? Arrange lines one way, one group is in control. Arrange in another way, the other group has control.
And a third way, and a relatively minor group holds the balance of power.
Even with limited government, it’s still a mess.
