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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVA-07 district is carefully crafted to exclude large cities (but includes suburbs)...
Just throwing this out there:
Notice how it rings around Richmond, but doesn't include it...
Paging Mr Mandering, Mr G. Mandering.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)That's the map from the "Historical district boundaries" section of the Wikipedia article. It's labeled "2003 - 2013".
The redistricting after the 2010 census took effect with the 2012 election, which chose the person who would fill the term beginning in January 2013. The former district in the OP is actually more reasonable -- more compact and contiguous -- than the current one, which you can see here. It throws out long arms that make the go-around-Richmond effect even more pronounced.
Cha
(297,188 posts)thanks Cooley
former9thward
(31,997 posts)The DOJ demanded a majority-minority district and to do that Richmond had to be excluded. Richmond was made the heart of a the new 3rd district formed in 1993. So this "gerrymandering" was completely at the direction of the Justice Department.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia's_7th_congressional_district