Chapter 1: What is gerrymandering and why is it controversial?
gerrymandering aka redistricting what does it mean why are people upset at governor abbott from texas he's going to be gerrymandering he's going to be redistricting you know what i'm newsome i'm going to be doing it as well if you do it i'm going to do that to the state of california and then pritzker gets in there and then they're like i should have gone in there because the people really realize what we're doing in illinois this is not good so what is gerrymander let me give you an idea so this is something they get to do
once every 10 years when census gives the reports of population blacks whites asians middle eastern democrats republicans and they get to say well this is this district this is what this district looks like if you look at illinois this is what illinois used to look like back in the day if you look at it these are basic districts you see how they're like right next to each other right
This is what Illinois looks like today. Look at the way they're doing the district, specifically that one district you're looking at. It's Illinois' fourth district. They call it the earmuffs because there's no way you can mess it up that way. Why would you do it that way? But what they do is they mix them up and they take a majority district of Republicans or Democrats
and they'll try to separate them into different districts to lower the percentage so they can win the additional. It's actually very, very creative, done by every state. This is not a Republican or a Democratic thing, but this is something that's been going on, and it's something you ought to know about. We're going to talk about that today.
So if you give value out of this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel. So watch this. This is Illinois. When you look at Illinois, this is how much. When you see the red, that's areas that Republicans live in. Now, if you look at the state, you would say, well, it looks half and half Republican and Democrat.
If that's the case, why is it that out of the 17 seats that they have at the House level, 17, 45, 14 are Democrats, only three are Republicans. When they voted the state, 55% or so were Democrats, 45% were Republicans, but because of gerrymandering, 84% of the entire state's representatives are on the left, and only 16% are Republican, three out of 17, simply because of gerrymandering.
That should kind of give you an idea.
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Chapter 2: How do redistricting processes differ across states like Texas, California, and Illinois?
Now let's go back to the history of it. How did this name come about? There used to be a governor in Massachusetts back in 1812 called Elbridge Gerry. This guy was the first one to say, well, what if I'm able to redistrict in a way? And he did the district in a salamander. If you look at this, this is exactly what he did. This makes no sense to create this as a district.
And then they said, wait a minute, this is brilliant. Gerry salamander gerrymandering. That's how the name came about, right? This guy had a brilliant idea. Everybody said, we're going to do this. This guy was part of the old Democratic Republican Party, is what they used to call it, pre-Lincoln. So it breaks down into three different types of gerrymandering.
One of them is partisan gerrymandering. It's purely based on politics. Hey, you're Republican. We're going to kind of cut this area out because there's too many rich Republicans here. We're going to cut this Democrats out because there are too many of them. We're going to district it. Or number two is racial gerrymandering. Too many whites here, too many blacks here. Let's split them apart.
Let's split them apart on what they're going to be. Or last but not least is the bipartisan gerrymandering. Doesn't happen often, but some of them who do it, it's bipartisan. It benefits everybody. So you may ask, why would somebody do this? Very simple. It reduces competition. If Illinois is able to do what they did, Democrats have a hard time winning.
By the way, those are numbers for Illinois we're talking about. California is very similar. In California, Newsom is threatening, saying, if Governor Abbott goes out there and does what he does, I'm going to lower the Republican seats, which is roughly 17% in the state of California. They have 83% of it. Let me say this one more time.
California's gonna flip, California's gonna flip, unless he can flip the gerrymandering that's going on today and make it bipartisan. They're gonna have control for a long time. 83% seats are controlled by the left. Only 17% are controlled by the right. He wants to bring it down to 8% if if Abbott pursues with the gerrymandering that he's about to be doing right now.
So now that threat is a real threat to go from 17 to eight, but this is what happened in Texas.
In Texas, the Senate passed a redistricting map And the Senate who approved this, they voted on this, the senators of Texas, the state senators. They voted 19 to 2. Nine Democratic senators walked out in protest.
They didn't even show up because they knew they were going to lose. The map is designed to add up to five GOP seats while eliminating or weakening several Democratic ones, potentially flipping districts held by figures like Representative Jasmine Crockett. That's why she made a comment yesterday. You can't get rid of me. I ain't going nowhere. But that's one of the people they're going after.
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Chapter 3: How does gerrymandering affect political representation in Illinois?
Because, by the way, when they do this, the census gives a report every 10 years. Most states, you can gerrymander as many times as you want because there's no federal authority on this. The federal government doesn't get to say anything about this. The governor, the local, the representative, the Senate, they vote for it. And if you've got control over it, you can do it all you want.
There are some states that can only do it once a decade. Carolina is once a decade. It's about six or seven states that you can only do it once a decade. Some even you can only gerrymander or redistrict it on the year that ends with the number one. So 2021, 2031, 2041. But all the other states, guess what? Gerrymander all you want. But Republicans are upset because they're saying the following.
Well, in 2020, when you gave us a census, you overcounted
democratic states and you under counted republican states so some are arguing that part that maybe there was some advantages there let me read some of the numbers to you should i look at this map here see how it says green and there's purple green are the states that were over counted and purple are the states that were under counted let me give you some of the numbers hawaii was over counted by 6.8 percent okay new york
Population, 19 million, overcounted by 3.4%. That's somewhere around 700,000 people, the size of an entire congressional district, which means they could have one additional seat just because of this overcounting. It's a big deal when you look at it. Massachusetts overcounted by 2.2%. Minnesota overcounted by 3.8%. Delaware and Rhode Island were also overcounted.
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Chapter 4: What historical events led to the term 'gerrymandering'?
Out of all the states that were overcounted, if you look at this list here, and by the way, of the overcounted states, Utah and Ohio were the only ones that got overcounted. All the other ones that got overcounted were all on the Democratic states. And the undercounted states, very interesting when you look at the numbers here, look at that. Arkansas, 5%. Tennessee, 4.8%. Mississippi, 4.1%.
Florida. minus 3.5% Texas, minus 1.9% undercounted. In this case, to be fair, we have to also show that Illinois was minus 2% undercounted. So when you look at these numbers here, some people could say, wait a minute, you're doing this, you're forcing us to have to protect our state because we know the Democrats are targeting taking over Texas. Because once they take over Texas, guess what?
Democrats could win year after year after year presidential election. It's a massive state to take over and take control of. So a lot of people on the right are concerned. Now, President Trump's a little bit concerned about this long term because he's trying to see what's going to happen next in 2028, 2032.
What about these 15 million illegal immigrants that came in the last four years under Joe Biden? Do you count them towards the census? According to the 14th Amendment, It's yes. It tells us U.S. Constitution requires a congressional appointment be based on the whole number of persons in each state with no distinction between citizens and non-citizens.
But the president and his team is going to try to do something about it if they do. Say they succeed. Here's the differences it would make. It would lower representation for states with large unauthorized populations, such as California, 1.8 million. Even Texas, 1.6 million. And Florida, 1.2 million.
But a lot of people on the other side said that's not going to happen simply because of the 14th Amendment that we have in place. Hopefully now you have a better idea what gerrymandering and redistricting is. If you want all these notes and the research that our team did, all you have to do is go to MNAC, download the app, go to the PBD Entrepreneur Circle. It's five bucks a month.
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Chapter 5: What are the different types of gerrymandering?
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