GERRYMANDERS

Examples

• “By this iniquitous practice, which is known as the gerrymander, the party in a minority in each State is allowed to get only about one-half or one-quarter of its proper share of representation.”
• “Any citizen looking at a map of district 12 could immediately tell that it was a gerrymander because of the ridiculous way it cut across 4 counties while carving up neighborhoods in half.”
• “The superintendent helped gerrymander the school district lines in order to keep the children of the wealthy gated community in the better school all the way across town.”