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In response to "This is the best hands down: "Carrico says rural areas of the state are rendered irrelevant by populous urban regions."" by MDH

Are their congressional districts based on population? If not, what?

Posted by Strongbad (aka Rambler14) Jan 23 '13, 10:11

I would assume the lines are drawn to keep the population numbers in each roughly the same?

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Basically country VA is GOP, all of NOVA is Dem, and the population is so large there, it crushes the rest of the state. - MDH Jan 23, 10:14
of course, which brings us back to the debate over gerrymandering. -- nm - znufrii Jan 23, 10:13 1
- Well for one, the "rendered irrelevant by populous urban regions" makes no sense. - Strongbad Jan 23, 10:14

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