I was just thinking about redistricting a little more. The idea is to ensure that the undesirables’ votes be concentrated together in urban areas in deference to Real Merkins®. I think one could achieve the same goal without the absurdity of gerrymandering. Stick to simple boundaries. Rather than partitioning the representation by simple population, however, one could moderate the allocation to the ethnics and other city dwellers according to some reasonable ratio. There is a good historical case for 3/5.

By the way…

It seems yesterday I missed an important facet of the stealth redistricting in Virginia:

After doing the dirty deed, the Republican senators adjourned their Rev. Martin Luther King Day session not in honor of the civil rights icon but “in memory of General Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson.”

From The Nation.