Marsha Blackburn Proposes Redistricting Tennessee.

[Seymour Flops]

To give all nine seats to Republicans.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/01/gerrymandering-explained-simple-terms-tennessee-redistricting/89874228007/

Following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn a Louisiana congressional map that protected Black voters, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn encouraged state legislatures to hold a special legislative session to redistrict Tennessee's congressional map, providing the GOP with an extra seat.

"I urge our state legislature to reconvene to redistrict another Republican seat in Memphis. It's essential to cement @realDonaldTrump’s agenda and the Golden Age of America," wrote Blackburn in her post.


I don't see this coming to an end until nearly every state is a one party legislative state. there will be a legislative winner-take-all-system, much like our electoral college system.

I would like to see a constitutional amendment that would end this kind of extreme gerrymandering. But i'm not sure how such an amendment could be worded.

 

[airplanemechanic]

The dems opened up a can of worms with VA. TX did it to counter CA. That made it even. VA made it lean dem, so repubs said FL will balance it out nicely.

 

[Winston]

To give all nine seats to Republicans.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/01/gerrymandering-explained-simple-terms-tennessee-redistricting/89874228007/

Following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn a Louisiana congressional map that protected Black voters, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn encouraged state legislatures to hold a special legislative session to redistrict Tennessee's congressional map, providing the GOP with an extra seat.

"I urge our state legislature to reconvene to redistrict another Republican seat in Memphis. It's essential to cement @realDonaldTrump’s agenda and the Golden Age of America," wrote Blackburn in her post.


I don't see this coming to an end until nearly every state is a one party legislative state. there will be a legislative winner-take-all-system, much like our electoral college system.

I would like to see a constitutional amendment that would end this kind of extreme gerrymandering. But i'm not sure how such an amendment could be worded.

Oh come on. Talk about political theater. Hell, Republicans control eight of nine and the nine is Memphis.

 

[HikerGuy83]

The dems opened up a can of worms with VA. TX did it to counter CA. That made it even. VA made it lean dem, so repubs said FL will balance it out nicely.

No balance.

We will come out smelling great.

I hate that this is happening, but it is where we are.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Oh come on. Talk about political theater. Hell, Republicans control eight of nine and the nine is Memphis.

That's the point.

VA did this to counter Texas in spite of the fact that New England is textbook course in gerrymandering.

How the GOP let that go on so long, I don't know.

 

[Winston]

That's the point.

VA did this to counter Texas in spite of the fact that New England is textbook course in gerrymandering.

How the GOP let that go on so long, I don't know.

Oh come on, enough with the blame game, it serves no purpose. Besides, Gerrymandering has been around since the very first Congressional election when Patrick Henry tried to "gerrymander" James Madison out of the first Congress. Yeah, Patrick Henry, Give me Liberty or give me Death but by God, let me always hang on to the right to gerrymander.

But there can be no doubt, now we have gone completely badshit crazy. We have to put some guardrails in place. That used to be the Judicial Branch.

 

[Lisa558]

The dems opened up a can of worms with VA. TX did it to counter CA. That made it even. VA made it lean dem, so repubs said FL will balance it out nicely.

“Lean” Dem? Spanberger made it 10-1, favoring Dems.

 

[MisterBeale]

 

[HikerGuy83]

But there can be no doubt, now we have gone completely badshit crazy.

And why?

Because the federal government has become way to large and way to important (in terms of goodies for people).

If it did just what it was supposed to do, it would be a nothingburger.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

We need a national process to determine how states create their districts that requires bipartisan committees to draw them up in each state.

 

[Blaster]

We need a national process to determine how states create their districts that requires bipartisan committees to draw them up in each state.

Bipartisanship has become a thing of the past.

 

[citygator]

The dems opened up a can of worms with VA. TX did it to counter CA. That made it even. VA made it lean dem, so repubs said FL will balance it out nicely.

Such a lie.

 

[1srelluc]

The dems opened up a can of worms with VA. TX did it to counter CA. That made it even. VA made it lean dem, so repubs said FL will balance it out nicely.

The VASC has yet to rule on ours. I don't think it's a sure thing for the dems.

 

[1srelluc]

We need a national process to determine how states create their districts that requires bipartisan committees to draw them up in each state.

Virginia had that till the dems pushed it aside.

 

[Rawley]

Virginia had that till the dems pushed it aside.

And California. Both literally had to trash their Constitutions to do their partisan redistricting.

 

[August West]

“Lean” Dem? Spanberger made it 10-1, favoring Dems.

Va. has a lot of people employed by the federal govt. and generally speaking, they are educated and that`s why they lean dem. Rural Virginia is much like rural Pa. They`re very Klanish.

 

[1srelluc]

Va. has a lot of people employed by the federal govt. and generally speaking, they are educated and that`s why they lean dem. Rural Virginia is much like rural Pa. They`re very Klanish.

PA has two race gerrymandered districts around Philly....It would be a shame if they were broken up.

 

[Eman623]

To give all nine seats to Republicans.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/01/gerrymandering-explained-simple-terms-tennessee-redistricting/89874228007/

Following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn a Louisiana congressional map that protected Black voters, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn encouraged state legislatures to hold a special legislative session to redistrict Tennessee's congressional map, providing the GOP with an extra seat.

"I urge our state legislature to reconvene to redistrict another Republican seat in Memphis. It's essential to cement @realDonaldTrump’s agenda and the Golden Age of America," wrote Blackburn in her post.


I don't see this coming to an end until nearly every state is a one party legislative state. there will be a legislative winner-take-all-system, much like our electoral college system.

I would like to see a constitutional amendment that would end this kind of extreme gerrymandering. But i'm not sure how such an amendment could be worded.

This is not rocket science.

1. Draw districts as compactly as possible,
2. Group population centers together,
3. Above all, seek to mirror the state's party voting patterns. If 40% of a state votes D and 60% R, then the state should have about the same proportion in its congressional delegation.

 

[Seymour Flops]

This is not rocket science.

1. Draw districts as compactly as possible,
2. Group population centers together,
3. Above all, seek to mirror the state's party voting patterns. If 40% of a state votes D and 60% R, then the state should have about the same proportion in its congressional delegation.

Those are great guidelines for coming up with a wording of the proposed amendment. Except that I am not sure the purpose of grouping population centers together, since population centers tend to vote d while urban and rural areas, vote R. is the idea that you would guarantee both R and D representatives?

Another poster suggested the idea of making each county a district of it is large enough and combining counties when they are not. That idea would at least use existing boundaries.

Oh come on, enough with the blame game, it serves no purpose. Besides, Gerrymandering has been around since the very first Congressional election when Patrick Henry tried to "gerrymander" James Madison out of the first Congress. Yeah, Patrick Henry, Give me Liberty or give me Death but by God, let me always hang on to the right to gerrymander.

But there can be no doubt, now we have gone completely badshit crazy. We have to put some guardrails in place. That used to be the Judicial Branch.

Correct.

All gerrymandering is actually re-gerrymandering.

Va. has a lot of people employed by the federal govt. and generally speaking, they are educated and that`s why they lean dem. Rural Virginia is much like rural Pa. They`re very Klanish.

Funny but dems don't sound that educated when they are asked to define the word "woman" and start talking like Scooby Doo.

They sound miseducated.

 

[Hollie]

Such a lie.

Such hurt feelings.