A republic of places: what mid-decade redistricting takes from the people inside the lines
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.
April 28, 2026·Civik Admin RepresentationRedistrictingGerrymandering
