Gerrymandering
Resources
- Cheat Sheet: What is gerrymandering? (1:50 video)
- The Gerrymandering Game
- The Gerrymandering Project
- Advanced Placement Human Geography Lesson and Presentation – Jody Smothers-Marcello
- Capturing the Flag – video from Providence Productions
- Democracy for Sale – video from America Divided
- The Ethics of Gerrymandering - webinar from the National Humanities Center, May 16, 2019
- Berrymandering - a game based on "I cut, you choose"
- Gerrymandering Districts Activity - Population Education
- Looking for ways to participate in local activities about government? Check out The Fulcrum's list of events.
Perspectives
- The worst congressional gerrymanders of the 2020s
- David Meyers, The Fulcrum, December 13, 2024
- Ending gerrymandering by using school districts in drawing congressional maps
- Howard Gorrell, The Fulcrum, May 23, 2023
- How redistricting affected the outcome of the elections
- Scott Simon, Weekend Edition Saturday, November 12, 2022
- Geometry Reveals the Tricks behind Gerrymandering
- Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, November 10, 2022
- Facts and Myths of Voter Suppression Podcast
- Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, Race and Voting Rights Series, September 23, 2022
- Partisan gerrymandering can reduce access to credit, study finds
- David Brancaccio and Jarrett Dang, Marketplace, September 20, 2022
- Pushing Boundaries: Political Redistricting and Consumer Credit, Akey et al, SSRN, March 2018
- What if Democrats - Or Republicans - Had Won Every Redistricting Battle?
- Ryan Best and Nathanial Rakich, FiveThirtyEight, August 11, 2022
- Redistricting biases have been anything but consistent the last 50 years
- David Meyers, The Fulcrum, July 5, 2022
- Gerrymandering (Not as fun as it is to say) [PODCAST[
- Brad Fallon, Why and Why Not, June 28, 2022
- Democrats' Gerrymandering Dilemma: Do you forfeit the game just when you are taking the lead?
- Slate, October 5, 2021
- How to Stop Gerrymandering 2021
- The Fulcrum, August 28, 2021
- High-school students win gerrymandering award for designing Ohio congressional map with Democratic majority
- Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland.com, August 7, 2021
- The U.S. has become more segregated. That could make gerrymandering worse.
- Sara Swan, The Fulcrum, June 28, 2021
- Is Gerrymandering About to Become More Difficult?
- Zack Stanton, Politico, May 27, 2021
- Do you live in a political bubble?, Gus Wezerek, Ryan D. Enos, and Jacob Brown, The New York Times, May 3, 2021
- 2001 Gerrymandering Threat Index, RepresentUs
- The Redistricting Song, Andrew Bean and David Holmes
- Reform, interrupted: The new mapmakers mainly face the old partisan rules, Sara Swann, The Fulcrum, November 24, 2020
- The man who rigged America's election maps (video), Vox, October 17, 2019
- The Secret Files of the Master of Modern Republican Gerrymandering
- David Daley, The New Yorker, September 6, 2019
- Expressing your anger at gerrymandering? There's a font for that.
- Sara Swann, The Fulcrum, August 5, 2019
- High court to voters: You deal with partisan gerrymandering.
- David Hawkings, The Fulcrum, June 27, 2019
- This college is so gerrymandered, different dorms are in different districts
- Dasha Burns, NBC News, May 28, 2019
- Those Who Draw the Lines...Have the Power
- Politics with Amy Walter, The Takeaway, April 5, 2019
- Gerrymandering, or geography? Computer-based techniques can prove that partisan advantage isn't an accident
- Sam Wang, The Atlantic, March 26, 2019
- We can draw school zones to make classrooms less segregated
- Alvin Chang, Vox, August 27, 2018
- Thomas Hofeller, Republican Master of Political Maps, Dies at 75
- Michael Wines, The New York Times, August 21, 2018
- Do-It-Yourself Legislative Redistricting
- Editorial Board, The New York Times, July 21, 2018
- How A Political Consultant Changed Voting Districts Nationally
- Karen Duffin, National Public Radio, June 15, 2018
- One Reform to Save America
- David Brooks, The New York Times, May 31, 2018
- Prominent Republicans Urge Supreme Court to End Gerrymandering
- Adam Liptak, The New York Times, September 6, 2017
- Schwarzenegger’s bipartisan next political act: Terminating gerrymandering
- Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, September 4, 2017
- The U.S. could be free of gerrymandering. Here's how other countries do redistricting.
- Bernard Grofman and German Feierherd, August 7, 2017
- The Top 10 Most Gerrymandered States In America
- Kaz Weida, Rantt Media, May 27, 2017
- Gerrymandering Has a Solution After All. It's Called Math.
- Clive Thompson, Wired, April 26, 2017
- How Dark Money Helped Republicans Hold the House and Hurt Voters
- Olga Pierce, Justin Elliott, and Theodoric Meyer, Propublica, December 21, 2012
- Gerrymandering: A Nation Divided, but Who’s Drawing the Lines?
- Jory Fleming
- Do Irregularly Shaped School Attendance Zones Contribute to Racial Segregation or Integration?
- Salvatore Saporito and David Van Riper, US National Library of Medicine, September 10, 2015
- Firing Line: Two Friends Talk: Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley, Jr.: Part II
- Listen to an advocate for bi-partisan commissions to draw congressional districts. Look for observations about gerrymandering and redistricting at minute 2:00, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, October 11, 1990