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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

If you ever wondered why Texas so reliably sends Republicans to Congress, part of the reason is that Texas Republicans won control of the state legislature for the first time since Reconstruction in 2002, and they immediately set about gerrymandering the state so Democrats could never win a majority of the state's Congressional districts again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%5FTexas%5Fredistricting

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