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by skinnymuch 1818 days ago
A huge reason for Florida is 2000. 2000 is just two decades ago. “Decades ago” implies three or more decades ago. Even if it meant 2000, Florida couldn’t have been usurped immediately after what was a huge reason for its reputation.

Proving bad gerrymandering by showing silly looking maps is not a good argument. There can be valid legitimate reasons for wonky mapping. Linking to wiki and a wonky looking map ends up manipulating people into agreeing with your argument without actually proving this case is bad gerrymandering.