Gerrymandering

Resources

• Cheat Sheet: What is gerrymandering? (1:50 video)
  • The Root
• 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 Hofeller Files
• The Secret Files of the Master of Modern Republican Gerrymandering
  • David Daley, The New Yorker, September 6, 2019
• The Worst Partisan Gerrymanders in U.S. State Legislatures
  • Christian R. Grose, Jordan Carr Peterson, Matthew Nelson, and Sara Sadhwani, USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy, September 4, 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
• Social Justice and Voting Rights in the South
  • Gerald Webster, Southeastern Geographer, May 2007
• 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