Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

Yeah, Republicans started this redistricting crap and refused reform in the early Biden years Hopefully we can get to a point where red AND blue states district fairly

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

Like, I saw a bunch of liberal/left opposition to California gerrymandering themselves, and I would totally understand that opposition if it weren’t for Republicans already stacking their decks too. I can’t just look at the Democrats and be like “No, you cannot fight dirty with the Republicans, you should simply roll over and take it when they do something clearly wrong”

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Anonymous OP 2w

Like, if the other team is gonna play dirty, and they’ve got the refs on their side about those dirty maneuvers, I can’t get mad when the team being cheated against says “yeah, fuck it, we’re gonna play dirty too” you know? It’s “by any means necessary” to stop the Republicans at this point, in my opinion.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

Heck, my blue state’s planning on redistricting too. I’d oppose it if Republicans across the country weren’t already doing it

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Anonymous OP 2w

unfortunately I am from North Carolina, a place known for its innovations in Republican gerrymandering lmao

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

NC can literally vote >50% blue in the midterms and still end up with more red districts than blue ones at the end of the day

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

Lol i’m from VA, a state that…has been trying to be fair actually (currently is 6-5 D). But Dems are seeking 10-1 D, and as of rn I don’t oppose it

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

For a while, before the Supreme Court was like “dawg this map is clearly racist, you gotta change it” there was a whole district that was just a long skinny line of every Black neighborhood from East Charlotte straight to Greensboro (about 2 hours NE of Charlotte)

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

A Greensboro-Charlotte snake-esque district is actually diabolical holy crap. I know that you guys have a state leg supermajority despite being more 50/50

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Anonymous OP 2w

or at least near-supermaj

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Anonymous OP 2w

NC Legislature: *hits blunt* “dude it would be so funny if we put like 75% of the Black people in the entire Piedmont all in one Congressional district” “lmao yeah dude I bet it would look so stupid on the map too, Alma’s gonna be pissed!”

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

Alma being Alma Adams, who has represented NC-12 in the US Congress since it was that crazy ass Charlotte-Greensboro Snake District

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

I went to college in NC, a CLT-GSO district has to be wild to see on a map

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

nah that district actually looked ugly af. Republicans knew they were wrong for that one

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

realizing this district is literally just I-85 is kinda crazy too

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

That NC-12 is awful. It’s not even representing any areas since it’s so snake like

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Anonymous OP 2w

I mean like, no substantial areas

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Anonymous OP 2w

Well, as someone who lived there during that time, I can say that Alma Adams was really tapped into the parts of Charlotte she represented, but yeah I imagine that fucking sucked if you were from all the way in Guilford or Forsyth County and she didn’t really know your interests like she did the Charlotte folks’

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

Though I also guess having Alma Adams would be marginally better than being represented by some Republican because you’re in one of the ONLY Black neighborhoods in your new district, so I guess there’s just no winning.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

Yeah, very glad SCOTUS made NC redraw those districts

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Anonymous OP 2w

Makes representation easier for the congresspeople too

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Anonymous OP 2w

Yeah, I’ve often thought about how difficult it would be for a representative to keep track of their district’s issues when the district is so spread out like that, but the people who drew the map view all Black folks everywhere as a monolith and weren’t thinking about how different the experiences of a person in West Charlotte and a person in Greensboro are.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

And, because of that distance, if you asked me at 18 how good of a representative Alma Adams was, I’d have told you she was great, always out in the community, really listening to the folks she represents, etc. but if you asked someone in the far end of her district with the same general beliefs, I bet they’d tell you she was NEVER out there, never listening to them, because she was too focused on us down in Charlotte, the area a majority of her votes came from.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2w

…which leads the folks in GSO feeling unrepresented. Which isn’t something the NC GOP seems to have accounted for

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