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mozumder on June 8, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mathematicians looking to make elections in the US...

The problem is gerrymandering results in only one district that's 90-10 while 9 other districts are 55-45.

Without gerrymandering, districts would have a normal distribution from 60-40 to 40-60.

thaumasiotes on June 8, 2017 [–]

It doesn't seem implausible that like-minded people would choose to live near each other.

coldtea on June 8, 2017 | [–]

Most people don't chose, they are just born in some place and stay nearby.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-f...

And even when choosing, they do it for job, etc reasons, not necessarily or primarily with political criteria.

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