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(Re)Apportionment, Redistricting and Gerrymandering

Chapter 6. (Re)Apportionment, Redistricting and Gerrymandering. Goals for today… . Understand what apportionment is… How it changes representation in Congress! How political parties manipulate this process for their benefit! Gerrymandering… . Let us begin… The U.S. Census .

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(Re)Apportionment, Redistricting and Gerrymandering

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  1. Chapter 6 (Re)Apportionment, Redistricting and Gerrymandering

  2. Goals for today… • Understand what apportionment is… • How it changes representation in Congress! • How political parties manipulate this process for their benefit! • Gerrymandering…

  3. Let us begin… The U.S. Census • U.S. Congress! (House and Senate) • How do they work? • The U.S. Census Bureau and Population • Article I, Section 2: • “The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative…”

  4. Ohio vs. Texas – Population Growth – 2000 to 2010

  5. So, now what? • What happens with all this new information on the United States’ population every 10 years? • Each state is forced to redraw Congressional district lines to account for changes in population… • “Redistricting” • Article I, Section 2 – Constitution • “Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers”

  6. Current Congressional Districts

  7. Enacted Congressional Districts

  8. Now, you might ask, how does all this “apportionment” and “redistricting” apply to voting in the United States?

  9. Gerrymandering!

  10. The story behind Gerrymandering! • History of Gerrymandering, Elbridge Gerry, Republicans vs. Federalists and Redistricting… • “It looks like a salamander!” … “No, it looks like a _______________!”

  11. More Gerrymandering… • Gerrymandering had always taken place! • *** 1842, Reapportionment Act… • “contiguous” and “compact.” • 1962, the SCOTUS ruled that districts must have fair borders and an appropriate population mixture. • In 1985, the SCOTUS ruled that manipulating district borders to give an advantage to one political party was unconstitutional!

  12. Enacted Congressional Districts

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