Critiquing modern US Conservatism: What All Conservatives Can Agree On?
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/tippling/2017/09/02/critiquing-modern-us-conservatism-conservatives-can-agree/
...With regard to America’s most gerrymandered state – in the news for other reasons more recently – “Two years ago [2014], more than half of [North Carolina] voters cast Democratic ballots, yet Republicans secured the vast majority of congressional seats.”
And of course, we know about the electoral college’s impact on results. The electoral college was offered as a sop to the South to encourage political involvement, but it is now, in effect, the gerrymandering of the entire electorate, as it gives undue power to the states that the GOP worked so hard to turn in the 60s (districts that had active KKK chapters in the 60s, and are more likely to vote Republican, even decades after the chapter closed: see Brandeis for a short write-up, and Vice for a more involved analysis)...
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