[justlurking]

US Congressional districts should be drawn as compact as possible: period.

There should be no accounting for race, gender, or local political boundaries. These have been gamed by both parties.

Someone has already done it, using a distributed computing client:

Impartial Automatic Redistricting

You can run the client yourself, and contribute.

See the website for "before" and "after" maps, and the algorithm that he uses.

[Impy]

Blacks and other dem-voting idiots should be packed in super-safe districts to minimize the number of democrats in office.

I don’t see why any conservative would have a problem with that.

Spreading Blacks out will just lead to White democrats being elected instead of Black democrats and White Republicans.

Your “impartial” thingy is a ticket to Pelsoi town. The dems already cheat at elections, we can’t help them out.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Exactly......let non partisan analysts program computers to select districts based on geographical compatibility, etc.

Take the politics out of it. Legislators have more pressing matters than to ensure their own political survivors

[pepsionice]

Personally, if you just make a federal law that said you had to use county lines as the dividing point....we’d all be satisfied. The general public....I think over 70-percent....would agree to that mentality.

[tenger]

Well, when you have to slice up districts to include 700,000+ people there are going to be problems. We stopped adding reps in 1910 I believe, else we'd have one for every 30,000 or 40,000 people.

Perhaps the question is, why'd they stop adding more representatives for the growing populace? It's certainly not mandated to stop at 435 in the Constitution. Who benefits from having only 435 to represent us?

Thirty Thousand has a ton of information about this.