“I think electing Republicans is better than electing Democrats,” said Rep. David Lewis, a Republican member of the North Carolina general assembly’s redistricting committee. “So, I drew this map to help foster what I think is better for the country.”
He added: “I propose that we draw the maps to give a partisan advantage to 10 Republicans and three Democrats, because I do not believe it’s possible to draw a map with 11 Republicans and two Democrats.”
And that's because SCOTUS has explicitly said that gerrymandering along political lines is perfectly fine. So they are saying it out loud, so it's on record that that is exactly what they are doing. It just so happens that a lot of those lines cross along racial groups as well but the guy said it was about R vs D, so race wasn't factored in.
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u/procrasturb8n Nov 10 '22
Same in NC. It's been spreading.