What Gerrymandering Looks Like: Virginia Democrats’ New Map | Joe Thomas
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🗓️ 10 February 2026
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| 0:27.8 | Redistricting. You hear so much going on and now we finally have the new map from the Virginia Democratic majority in the House. You have to make sure that you have some majority minority |
| 0:34.2 | minority districts. This is actually what started this whole process, |
| 0:39.3 | is that Texas' congressional districts did not meet those standards, |
| 0:44.3 | so they had to redraw them to make sure there were more minority-majority districts. |
| 0:49.3 | We had a post yesterday that showed the new maps and said, |
| 0:52.3 | Democrats, circa 1880, hey hey let's disenfranchise |
| 0:57.2 | people Democrats circa 2026 hold my beer I mean this is the this is the hubris |
| 1:05.3 | you have to laugh at it right redistricting you hear much going on, and now we finally have the new map from the Virginia Democratic majority in the House. |
| 1:19.6 | And thank you for taking a little time with us. |
| 1:21.7 | And you may say, Joe, it seems like you were wrong when you said earlier in this process that there was a great opportunity and peril for those who would seek to stretch out their districts so far as to take 20% and in one case 40% Democratic Party majority based on historic voter turnout and stretch them to where they're just |
| 1:46.7 | barely over 50%. So let's go back and take a look at the map as it's drawn. You can see how, |
| 1:55.3 | if you ever wondered what gerrymandering looked like, you can see it in 3D right here, and especially Virginia's |
| 2:04.2 | 6th Congressional District, which they've managed to draw to include Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, |
| 2:10.8 | Stanton, Waynesboro, very little of surrounding Augusta County, and then managed to get it to go |
| 2:16.5 | all the way down through Lynchburg |
| 2:18.1 | and Roanoke. And you can see also very small districts right here in the Hampton Roads area, |
| 2:25.3 | all proportionate by population. But here's the interesting thing first and foremost, |
| 2:30.9 | since the districting in terms of history had to be managed because when |
| 2:39.2 | the 1929 permanent reapportionment Act was passed, the intent was to allow for redistricting |
| 2:48.4 | every 10 years and that they could divide growing black communities who |
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