Bill Roper's Journal

Texas just did a redistricting which apparently is a horrendous example of gerrymandering. Districts can be seen to exactly follow lines between wealthy and poor neighborhoods, blue collar and white collar, etc.

I sometimes wonder if it's possible to make hard and fast rules to prevent this; something like "districts must be polygons with a maximum of 8 angles, except where they follow physical boundaries such as rivers, or political boundaries such as township borders."