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Where Did the Term 'Gerrymander' Come From?

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Where Did the Term 'Gerrymander' Come From?
By Erick Trickey/ History/ Ask Smithsonian/ SmithsonianMag.com

"Elbridge Gerry was a powerful voice in the founding of the nation, but today he’s best known for the political practice with an amphibious origin.

Long and thin, the redrawn state senate district in Massachusetts stretched from near Boston to the New Hampshire border, where it hooked east along the Merrimack River to the coast. It sliced up Essex County, a political stronghold for the Federalist Party – all by design of its ascendant political rival, the Democratic-Republicans. It worked: the freakishly shaped district elected three Democratic-Republicans that year, 1812, breaking up the county’s previous delegation of five Federalist senators.

It wasn’t the first time in American history that political machinations were behind the drawing of district boundaries, but it would soon become the most famous...."

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This article is posted for Historical information only and is not intended to promote political discussion which is against Tug Guidelines.

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Thank you Richard

Interesting origin / Like the word lobbyist
 
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