Abstract
Distance Matters: a more than euclidean approach to visualizing gerrymandering
Highlights
In the United States, the upcoming 2020 Census, and the resulting redistricting process, has brought gerrymandering back into focus
Several important legislative and judicial standards have emerged at the level of US Federal Government that were intended to stymie this practice. These include the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which stipulated that US Congressional districts be comprised of contiguous territory in “as compact form as practicable” (Bunge 1966)
Though quantitative methods in the field of geography seem presently dominated by narrow views of absolute, Euclidean spaces, early efforts at defining quantitative geographic approaches were focused largely on finding new ways to define and visualize space (Janelle 2015; Kitchin 2006; O’Sullivan et al 2018)
Summary
In the United States, the upcoming 2020 Census, and the resulting redistricting process, has brought gerrymandering back into focus. Algorithmically conducted geospatial analysis and the resulting cartographic visualizations produced have emerged as a central battleground on which various practices of redistricting are discussed.
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