Source: Ending Gerrymandering Won’t Fix What Ails America | FiveThirtyEight, by Harry Enten
Gerrymandering contributes to issues like the drop in competitive elections, extremism and gridlock, but it’s far from their sole cause. If you want to solve these problems — and the problems themselves are very real — you need to understand what’s really behind them.
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gerrymandering may be just as much a symptom of America’s political problems as a cause.