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It began in ... Oregon, which in 2020 did an outrageous gerrymander, creating a 5 to 1 map.
#4 | Posted by MSgt
2020 huh.
Wow.
You're only off by two hundred years.
The term gerrymandering is a portmanteau of a salamander and Elbridge Gerry,[a][5] Vice President of the United States until his death, who, as governor of Massachusetts in 1812, signed a bill that created a partisan district in the Boston area that was compared to the shape of a mythological salamander. en.wikipedia.org
"you do not solve the world's number one refugee crisis by dumping it into the world's number two."
Yes we do.
This is what I voted for.
--Boaz