Democrats gerrymander just as much as Republicans, but Democrats claim their party has the moral high ground because, according to liberal journalists, Democrats have tried to “ban gerrymandering.”

This claim has a dozen things wrong with it — for instance, Democrats tied their gerrymandering legislation to other measures including banning voter ID — but the fundamental problem was that nobody agrees on what gerrymandering is.

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For instance, the Democrats’ “gerrymander ban” would have required states to tie together black-majority precincts that may be geographically distant. This is, by any normal definition, a racial gerrymander. To Democrats, this was “banning gerrymanders” because presumably they limit their definition of racial gerrymandering to efforts to reduce minority representation.

…Also, the section @sahilkapur calls a "gerrymandering ban" actually MANDATES race-based gerrymandering, to create majority-black districts, which is how you got stuff like the district........

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