On one hand I look forward as a movement progressive to gerrymandering opportunities after 2010, especially after the job the GOP did to democrats in 2000. But there is something to be said for make "good", "fair", districts. Slate magazine ran a story on using computer algorithms to generate fairer more competitive maps for legislative boundaries in: Can a bunch of mathematicians make government more representative?
This dovetail nicely with a diary I wrote last Friday: Supreme Court to Rule on Voting Rights Act. In which I noted that
I fully expect that Clarence Thomas will continue
to strike out at black people for making fun of him when he was a small ugly child hurting his feelingsto attack all legal remedies to redress past discrimination. I could see the Roberts court being much more aggressive in challenging minority majority districts. Now at first glance many people will look a this as a bad thing. But it could have some really interesting (positive) effects.