Maryland 2nd district. insane. I’ll bet even the congressman doesn’t know his whole district.
I spoke with Andy Harris (R-MD, District 1) once and thought he was my congressman. (I had just moved in to the state) He told me that his district wrapped right around my neighborhood.
The Maryland district map looks like a drunk monkey puked on a map and they drew circles around the chunks
The 2nd CD is pretty bad. The 3rd has the honor of being the most gerrymandered district in the entire United States of America.
There was an alternative map proposed by the Maryland republican Party and a black group called the Fannie Lou Hamer PAC. It would have preserved two Republican House seats in Maryland, as we had before this monstrosity, and had three majority-minority districts instead of two.
The Fannie Lou Hamer PAC also says the House of Delegates should be elected from single-,member districts instead of being dependent on the senate districts. I agree with them.
The legislative map isn’t much better. Literally, across the main road into our complex, people who share the same polling place are in a different legislative district. To the point that Ballotpedia, which can identify your districts from your extended zip code, has me in the wrong legislative district.
Interestingly, the alternative plan would have thrown Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD2) and Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD3) into the same district.
Thankfully, the state now has a republican governor and he’s likely to be re-elected relatively easily, so he can stand athwart the Democrats’ efforts to give the state another crazy gerrymander like the current plan.