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A district is not a coincidence of geography. It is a deliberate institution, an act of careful drawing, an attempt to say of a particular stretch of country that the people who live within these borders share enough common ground that their voices can be honestly aggregated into a single voice, delivered to a single chamber, by, in most cases, a single representative.
Bend, Oregon doubled its population in a generation, almost entirely through migration. By every metric institutions track, the transformation succeeded. The cost it imposed on the people who were already there does not appear in any ledger.