Tag: gerrymandering
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Stay In Bed
There are some days, where you checked the news first thing in the morning, while still in bed and are tempted to stay in bed all day. Being in Alberta, with a forecast of a hot summer, I have five long months, ahead, of heated rhetoric from the separatist camp, until voting day of October…
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Gerrymandering
OK class, today we will learn about gerrymandering. The Oxford dictionary defines gerrymandering as follows, manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favor one party or class. The word, gerrymander, originated back in 1812, when governor Elbridge Jerry signed a bill, redrawing Senate districts in Massachusetts, which would favour his party. One of the districts…