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Your gerrymandering primer
Kendra Nordin Beato
Staff editor
What do politicians and salamanders have in common?
However much you think you know about political redistricting, you’ll want to read Victoria Hoffmann’s explainer today on the practice of gerrymandering. You’ll learn the backstory of its name, coined in 1812, right here in Massachusetts. Gerrymandering intensified during the Reconstruction era, as Americans struggled to articulate: Who are we, and what do we stand for? The practice of politicians redrawing congressional voting maps to give their party a better shot at winning persists to this day, in blue states and red ones alike.
