Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“There has been a good deal of talk recently about gerrymandering, set off by the attempt by Texas Republicans to redistrict their state and met by threats from Democrats to respond in kind. Someone online pointed out that Massachusetts, whose governor was one of those threatening, already had no Republican representatives. Over a third of the voters are Republicans, judging by the most recent presidential election, but all nine representatives are Democrats. That got me interested in to what extent each party had already succeeded in drawing district lines that maximized the number of representatives it elected in states it controlled. There is an easy way to produce at least a crude answer — compare the percentage of each state’s congressional delegation controlled by the dominant party to the party’s percentage of the vote.” (08/16/25)