The folks who keep overstating the effects do so, in large part, to avoid taking responsibility for the Democratic Party has become non-competitive in most rural areas and in some cities between the coasts.. The GOP gets to gerrymander because the platform of the Dems is so unappealing in so many areas. If the Dems still appealed to them, they wouldn't be in this situation in the first place. The Dems lost these folks at a critical time and it cost them dearly. State legislatures and governorships have been decimated and the things that most affect our lives day-in and day-out happen at the state level, not in Washington.
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