I'm not saying that getting rid of Gerrymandering would solve any real substantial problem that the US has, but like, why is this still a thing?
It's easily solvable, and it seems like neither party really gets all that much more out of it than the other, so why not just get rid of it?
Doesn't the redistricting process fall under federal control? So, they could just tell the states they can't do it anymore, right?
Yeah from what I remember reading about gerrymandering from some lib publication, probably Vox if I remember correctly tbh, the Republicans just do it more intensely to their own benefit than the Democrats do when it's their turn so to speak, which is probably rooted in good old bipartisanship on part of the Democrats
Anecdotally, one district that my mom lives in (she doesn't have multiple houses, rather there are different sets of districts for different legislative bodies) contains, per square mile, probably upwards of 80% white af suburbs (which I suppose could be mostly equally sub-divided into areas more like most of non-rural Appalachia and areas more like most of exurban Connecticut), and probably <20% two urban neighborhoods in the nearby major city, one of which is undergoing rapid gentrification, and the other is simply staying poor as far as I'm aware.
Regardless of how my mom's house is situated as it relates to all this, shit certainly sucks, but imo the current manifestation of gerrymandering in the US is very much a result of our liberal/bourgeois democracy and its domination by the two massive capitalist parties (yes I'm sure this is not a hot take here, I just wanted to be sure to properly drown out my inner :LIB:)