Serious question about gerrymandering

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11. 538 put out good podcast series on gerrymandering recently

Not gerrymandering is harder than it seems depending on how much somebody wants to account for protections around minorities and representation, specifically in terms descriptive representation. If we think it's important to have minorities be in a position to be elected, then we need more majority-minority districts or at least districts with higher concentrations of minorities and thus reducing the Democratic vote in other districts. If we only want substantive representation (ie it doesn't matter if the elected representative looks like their district), that's much easier.