The art of the gerrymander

Explain It to Me

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🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind are joined by Vox Senior Politics Correspondent Andrew Prokop (@awprokop) for a dive deep into the newly redrawn 2022 congressional maps. They discuss what makes a fair map, the strategy behind gerrymandering, and what this could mean for the 2022 midterm elections. Plus, a white paper about the Voting Rights Act and Black electoral representation in Congress. References: Andrew’s explainer on the redistricting wars The Supreme Court’s last ruling on partisan gerrymandering An argument that the 2022 redistricting has featured “an unprecedented attack … on the political power of communities of color” White Paper: "The Triumph of Tokenism: The Voting Rights Act and the Theory of Black Electoral Success" “The US Senate considerably dilutes the voting power of African Americans” Hosts: Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt), senior correspondent, Vox Dara Lind (@dlind), Weeds co-host, Vox Credits: Sofi LaLonde, producer and engineer Libby Nelson, editorial adviser Amber Hall, deputy editorial director of talk podcasts Sign up for The Weeds newsletter each Friday: vox.com/weedsletter Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a donation to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.5	Hello and welcome to another episode of The Weeds. I'm your host Dylan Matthews and
1:17.7	I am joined by my regular co-host, Darryl Lind. Hello.
1:21.7	We wanted to have Andrew on a because it's about the eighth anniversary of all three of us
1:28.7	working at Vox for the first time and I'm nostalgic. I appreciate being included in this as
1:33.7	opposed to certain other people who started around that time who shall remain nameless,
1:37.7	who did not grant me a happy Voxa Voxa because I was referred to as the Trader Darryl Lind.
1:43.7	Look, once a Voxa or always a Voxa will keep you and claim our achievements for our own
1:50.7	but we also wanted to have Andrew on because 2022 is a redistricting year and states are all forced to
1:56.7	redraw their congressional and state legislative maps given the most recent census and that could have major
2:02.7	ramifications for control of the House this fall and Andrew has been covering the ups and
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