"crazy cartography (as) consensus activity"

Jean Pierre de Vries has written a short bit comparing gerrymandered districts in the US to the formation of patchwork bantustans under Apartheid –

"...topological monstrosities whose tentacles and fractured edges serve to create homogenized voting blocs where the notion of a district as a conventional geographic entity is completely lost."

Comments

[Nick Helmholdt]

Great site. We need more bloggers/writers out there talking about these issues.

I'm going to add you to my blogroll.

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