We examined the first redistricting round since the Supreme Court’s Shelby County v. Holder decision ended ‘preclearance,’ comparing it to the last cycle’s districts
100 years ago, Nannie Helen Burroughs launched the National Association of Wage Earners — part of her effort to integrate comprehensive labor reform into the movement for voting rights.
Even independent redistricting commissions are limited by the fact that Democrats cluster in cities while Republicans are widely dispersed. But there’s a solution.
White Southern leaders established one-party rule by sharply restricting who could vote — until Black civil rights advocates pushed the federal government into action
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/what-democrats-need-to-win-the-house/2018/03/12/4a060aaa-261d-11e8-a227-fd2b009466bc_video.html Editor's Note: This post was originally published on May 1,
Our former guestblogger "Dan Hopkins":http://people.iq.harvard.edu/~dhopkins/ has an interesting "working paper":http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1434374