Cruz is gonna be with Texas until he makes a failed presidential campaign just like Perry, isn’t he.
Well, it was a close race with a good heaping amount of voter suppression, let’s not forget that. Then there’s the gerrymandering that divided Austin into six districts. I mean…
Look at this fucking shit right here. Austin is super left and it got so gerrymandered that it looks red. (btw I’m using the House race since it shows the districts)
And then there’s San Antonio.
Take a look at how Houston is divided.
Lucky it’s mostly blue with a flipped district, but notice how a specific district wraps around Houston and slivers right into its heart, making a conservative district. Methinks this isn’t a good representation of the populations that district covers nor the most convenient for the locals there. (must be confusing as all hell to find out where your polling booth is for that district)
And then there’s Dallas/Fort Worth.
Notice how the biggest cities in Texas are divided up, with the fringes of the cities sliced up and devoured by the rural and much more conservative areas. This is what gerrymandering looks like. It’s not representative of the rural people living in those districts and it’s not representative of the people in the cities themselves. It benefits no one but Republicans in office.
If Democrats get any wins in Texas, this is what they had to fight against.
Senate races are determined by pure popular vote.
Gerrymandering, while certainly a prevalent issue, has nothing to do with Beto’s loss, and in fact Democrats had a net gain in Texas officeholders.
(Also Democrats gerrymander too — welcome to the state of Massachusetts and the state House.)
