went back to a federal court. this question of whether or note1 people would understand their economic interests rather than partisan or racial ones. that s not typically how american politics operated, right? absolutely. i think one of the things to be careful about is that this is a race under a different name. been forbidden from doing something from thej y front doo we can t allow it through the back door. i think that s the real danger with, as marc was saying, supreme court retreating andxd saying this is lefte1ñi up to t politicale1 process. it left a crack open from that retreat or it left i m mixing metaphors. cracks and doork and front ones and back ones. it left a loophole in saying that, look,w3 in this 2004 caset said that partisan gerrymand gerrymandering is not something going back to what marc was saying earlier. it s going to become divas the population is diverse, more diverse as the south begins to
stacking is the practice of redrawing districtok boundarieso thatw3 one voter group thinks is the majority but it s outweighed by an opposing group.ok cracking is breaking up political opponents into different districts, preventing them from becoming aw3 majority. when the first two don t work, you start packing. packing asq many opponents into one district as s7possible, leaving the surrounding one for folks more like you. remember, this is all potentially legal. continuing our discussion on redistrictinge1 and the partisa and racia dawson,fáavé(á(hsju)p& and kenjá yoshino. you wanted toe1 makk this point about continuous districts and this issue of on the one hand sort ofi] what makes a communit but alsor does not and how the supreme court has thought about racee1 being important versus politics and partisanship. right. i think i wanted to bounce off of what marc was saying. he was saying it s politics all the way down. can t take the politics out of thee1 politic.
owe the nation a responsibility to promulgate standards, to set sort of bright line tests so legislators have a guide post and it s not aw3 jump ball or m wrestling match ori] who has th most power at aq given point in time. where ohio lost the district, south is picking up a new one. we watched that fight play e1ou. republican statehouse, the entire proceç&l of hearings. it ended up being a district that economically was alike. that s what happentç it moved fromut( myrtle beach t & ini]e1 an area that john0lp sprat and now nick mulvaney and some jim o clyburn. is came the economicxd impac of a highway called i-73. it became a realq4hq%=9 of moving that district forward and q block.aw a good c+ it was a fight up to the last twoxd hours of where republican couldn t gx along and democrats
son lines. many ofe1 my students are teari their hair out saying how can this happen, it s gerrymandering. the point is that the supreme court hasxd gotten out of this field. they ve taken axd step back in 3 2004 and said raciales.ñ i ve ever been to is anfá tle incumbent protection fight. lp that s righ4é democrats and republicans, right, on both sides. whoever has controle1 will t to, one, protect and two, expand the number ofc s]$5ññi that the perceive to be in their control. i know some states are looking at independent commission process.c i m not so certain you can take politic out of politics or democracy out of the redistricting. even if you do that, you ll fight overw3 whot( sits on the commission so to speak. sure. that s why w)) wins