Louisiana v. Callais, Gerrymandering and Modern Election Tampering |
Louisiana v. Callais, Gerrymandering and Modern Election Tampering
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In 1812 the term “Gerrymander” originated when Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry approved a redistricting plan to favor his political allies by manipulating district boundaries. Newspapers, critical of the practice, quipped that the new boundaries of one district resembled that of a salamander. A political cartoon depicted the contorted district as a “Gerry-mander” (with a hard “g” – it’s pronounced Gary-Mander), combining the governor’s name with the amphibian shape. Gerrymandering had actually been around since the founding of the country, albeit as an unnamed practice, with evidence reaching back into the first decades of the United States’ system under the Constitution of the United States in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
In 1788 the Anti-Federalists in Virginia drew congressional maps forcing federalist (federalist based on support of Federalism, not a member of the Federalist Party) James Madison to run against Anti-Federalist James Monroe in the same district hoping to keep Madison out of Congress. Madison won, anyway. A few decades later, Monroe became a staunch ally of Madison.
Gerrymandering intensified after the Apportionment Act of 1842 which mandated single-member districts, making gerrymandering a key tool in electoral politics. Since the very start, gerrymandering has been a key tool that has especially flourished during periods of extreme partisanship to establish both a partisan advantage, and in some cases racial discrimination.
Louisiana v. Callais has been ruled on by the United States Supreme Court, with the case centering on Louisiana’s map and whether state lawmakers were forced to improperly draw districts based on race. Despite being in an age of reverse discrimination thanks to a relatively long history of Affirmative Action, and more recently DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), none of which........