I'm not from the US so I didn't understand the importance of these comments. To clarify for others, North Carolina's Senate is currently Republican majority, and the incumbent governor is Democratic (Roy Cooper). My source is still Wikipedia.

The map is an amended version of Proposal CCJ-1, the less aggressively gerrymandered of the two proposals unveiled by Republicans last week.

If you're morbidly curious in seeing the other map proposed, it was CBP-5:

https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/c/c2/NC_map_1.png

Look at proposed district 3 😂, it's another district that was going to be shaped like a bow-tie.

Source: https://ballotpedia.org/Redistricting_in_North_Carolina_after_the_2020_census

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The shittiest thing is that they're not actually good at it. We generally use compactness as a proxy for a gerrymandered district. However, you can effectively gerrymander using extremely compact districts. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lq-Y7crQo44

This is terrifying, and a strong reason to move to multimember districting.

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[–] MeowyNinhaj@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago

I hate that they can get away with this garbage.