{"id":809,"date":"2017-05-30T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T06:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2017mappingtheinvisible\/?p=809"},"modified":"2017-05-30T23:27:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T06:27:18","slug":"gerrymandering-partisan-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2017mappingtheinvisible\/2017\/05\/30\/gerrymandering-partisan-mapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerrymandering: Partisan Mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[aesop_image img=&#8221;https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2017mappingtheinvisible\/files\/2017\/05\/gerrymandering.png&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; lightbox=&#8221;on&#8221; captionposition=&#8221;left&#8221; revealfx=&#8221;off&#8221;]\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=15&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwilgvq0uZnUAhWqilQKHTIoAZQQFghjMA4&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fmappingsupport.com%2Fp%2Fpolitics%2Fcongressional-district-map-tips.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNF0PUBGtGpmYeuUsBb8bVSvNUz4Xw&amp;sig2=RPaiLnUBA0QMS6U54yKc7w\">Mapping Support&#8217;s 2017 USA Congressional District Map<\/a> uses GIS with Google to highlight current gerrymandered electoral districts in the US (the interactive map is worth checking out). In some states politicians (as opposed to independent\u00a0 or judiciary groups) redraw voting districts to compose an electoral district that would align in the incumbents&#8217; favor. The map above is a district that dilutes urban (more likely minority and democratic-leaning) voters with suburban and rural voters (more likely white and republican).\u00a0 Not surprisingly, these maps are contentious. The US Supreme Court has ruled earlier this month that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2017\/05\/supreme-court-north-carolina-racial-gerrymander-case-voting-rights\">districts drawn in republican controlled North Carolina are based on race and therefore unconstitutional<\/a>. The Court will also hear another important trial in which the justices may finally clearly lay out the limits of gerrymandering. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/30\/opinion\/gerrymandering-supreme-court.html\">NYTimes<\/a> puts it more eloquently in an editorial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/30\/opinion\/gerrymandering-supreme-court.html\">why politicians shouldn&#8217;t make maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 427px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2017\/05\/30\/opinion\/30tue1\/30tue1-blog427.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"514\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2017\/05\/30\/opinion\/30tue1\/30tue1-blog427.jpg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n[aesop_map sticky=&#8221;right&#8221;]\n\n<p><span style=\"text-indent: 20px;width: auto;padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px;text-align: center;font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #ffffff;background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px;cursor: pointer\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-indent: 20px;width: auto;padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px;text-align: center;font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #ffffff;background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px;cursor: pointer\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-indent: 20px;width: auto;padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px;text-align: center;font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #ffffff;background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px;cursor: pointer\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[aesop_image img=&#8221;https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2017mappingtheinvisible\/files\/2017\/05\/gerrymandering.png&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; lightbox=&#8221;on&#8221; captionposition=&#8221;left&#8221; revealfx=&#8221;off&#8221;] Mapping Support&#8217;s 2017 USA Congressional District Map uses GIS with Google to highlight current gerrymandered electoral districts in the US (the interactive map is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2017mappingtheinvisible\/2017\/05\/30\/gerrymandering-partisan-mapping\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gerrymandering: Partisan Mapping<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2017mappingtheinvisible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2017mappingtheinvisible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2017mappingtheinvisible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2017mappingtheinvisible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2017mappingtheinvisible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2017mappingtheinvisible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2017mappingtheinvisible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2017mappingtheinvisible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2017mappingtheinvisible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/2017mappingtheinvisible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}