Yesterday, The Guardian ran an interesting story about redistricting in the state of Tennessee. It seems that a Republican majority decided to carve Nashville into pieces so that Democrats living in that city would not have a seat of their own in the US House of Representatives. I guess that’s a privilege of a Republican majority. To them, anything they can do to decimate the other party is fair game.
They did something very similar here in Utah, too. Most of the Democrats live in Salt Lake City. There are a few of us in outlying areas, but somehow, those people in the Utah legislature became convinced that people living in the city had shared interests with people living in the country. That didn’t go well. This kind of drama is playing out all over the country.
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