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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
It leads to partisanship, if your district is drawn so that you only have to appeal to your core voters it means you push both parties out to the extremes
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Gerrymandering has the opposite effect. It distributes out from very partisan districts to distribute votes in closer districts where they are more needed. That's where it can backfire though. If you try to get too clever, and there is a shift one way or the other, you can lose the "sure thing" districts.