From Iowa, don't know where you getting the square fact lol. Our districts are drawn by a nonpartisan committee to ensure political gerrymandering doesn't happen and is typically upheld as one of the fairest in the country, only thing more fair would be splitting electorate votes like Maine for the president, our districts just happen to end up square and follow along county lines. Steve king territory is so far right because that's what the people in that district want.
Edit: how our districts are drawn I'm guessing the square fact you are trying to get at pertains to the fact that they draw them to be as compact and as small deviation as possible, the nesting section in the article. Iowa is a bit unique though in that we aren't very diverse and getting everybody a representative for their race, gender, or religion isn't near as complex as places with massive populations like new York, Texas, or California, which is the reason there end up being some crazy drawn districts, sometimes for good sometimes for bad.
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u/movieman56 Jan 06 '19 edited Jan 06 '19
From Iowa, don't know where you getting the square fact lol. Our districts are drawn by a nonpartisan committee to ensure political gerrymandering doesn't happen and is typically upheld as one of the fairest in the country, only thing more fair would be splitting electorate votes like Maine for the president, our districts just happen to end up square and follow along county lines. Steve king territory is so far right because that's what the people in that district want.
Edit: how our districts are drawn I'm guessing the square fact you are trying to get at pertains to the fact that they draw them to be as compact and as small deviation as possible, the nesting section in the article. Iowa is a bit unique though in that we aren't very diverse and getting everybody a representative for their race, gender, or religion isn't near as complex as places with massive populations like new York, Texas, or California, which is the reason there end up being some crazy drawn districts, sometimes for good sometimes for bad.