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Texas Republicans pass gerrymandered congressional map requested by Trump (www.theguardian.com)
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The Republican-controlled Texas house on Wednesday approved a redrawn congressional map requested by Donald Trump and fiercely opposed by Democrats, who led a weeks-long protest to stall the effort that kicked off a coast-to-coast redistricting arms race between red and blue states.

With the house’s approval, the measure next goes to the state senate, where it is expected to pass, possibly as soon as Thursday. It would then be sent to the state’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, for his promised signature before taking effect.

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[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 days ago

Republicans are spineless bitches who claim to love the law but have 0 issues breaking it

Fuck these fascist christian fucks

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I hope these MAGA get hurt bad by all of Trumps polices and they go blue. Imagine changing the maps and getting fucked over when Texas turns blue?

Would be an amazing turnaround. Imagine what Texas could do if it had some ethical leadership?

[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Texas will never turn blue. They are too fucking stupid.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The whole reason they're doing this new illegal heavily gerrymandered map is because they are blue and are trying to stay red.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

It's like a woosh went over their head.

[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world -3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

they are blue

No, they're very much not.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Using the district map to prove me wrong just proves me right???

According to independentvoterproject.org of 17,485,702 total registered voters, 46.52% are registered Democrat and 37.75% are registered Republican.

[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes. And?

The last time Texas voted for a Dem president was 1976.

Pretty fuckin red, wouldn't you say?

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Do you know what gerrymandering is? Do you understand how our representative democracy functions in practice?

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Do you know that gerrymandering has no impact on presidential elections?

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

We're getting mixed up and off topic here, I never meant that Gerrymandering is directly affecting the presidential vote of Texas, not are the presidential election results even the topic of this conversation. Gerrymandering absolutely explains why Texas’s congressional map looks way redder than its voter registration numbers suggest, that’s how Republicans preserve power within the state. That’s why Texas can simultaneously be a majority-Democrat in registration, gerrymandered into a Republican-heavy congressional map, and still vote red for president due to completely separate issues such as turnout patterns and suppression tactics. But it’s not that Texas is ‘too stupid,’ it’s that the mechanics of turnout + maps + laws keep the GOP on top despite underlying demographics shifting consistently to the left.

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago

The point that MisterOwl was making is that Texas hasn't voted for a democrat president since 1976... if there were more democrats in Texas than republicans then the presidential election would show that since the presidential election is based on the majority. It was to this point that you mentioned gerrymandering, as if that has any impact on presidential elections.

I do agree that gerrymandering is a problem, and that Texas is bluer than its congressional makeup would suggest, but I do not think that Texas is even close to being able to turn blue any more than California is close to turning red.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

Gotta serve their felon rapist pedophile daddy.

Texas is full of cucks.

Proceed California.

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

i never understood the reasoning of the democrats flight from texas to stop the vote for the districting.

“to stop the vote passing this session” oh how long did that stop them? “oh the next session started the second they got quorum” so… it stalled them for the time they flead..? “well no because the mechanism that uses the maps to determine the seats did not change…” oh so it fucking did nothing. democrats being performative again, and not the slightest bit useful.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

*thanks to help from the texas Democrats who promised to block the bill