At 06:29 PM 11/1/02, William Taylor wrote:
In a message dated 11/1/2002 5:01:29 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:<< Here in PA we lost two seats, we've been losing at least two seats every ten years since 1950 when we had 32. The main problem is the big cities are losing the people but they still have enough to force the big rural districts to be even bigger to balance the population. >> And thank you from Arizona for those 2 seats every ten years. Arizona has a district, the second, gerrymandered by governmental decree. The Hopi Nation does not vote in the same district as the Navajo Nation. So the Hopi reservation in district two stands out like a yo-yo on the end of its string.
And then there are the districts which by federal court order have to be drawn so as to be "majority minority" districts so as to assure the election of a representative of a certain race . . . regardless of whether that person has any qualifications other than the correct skin color.
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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