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Not quite... the real point of gerrymandering is to concentrate your political opponents' support, so that they have a small number of large majorities, and to
by al452 9y ago
Not quite... the real point of gerrymandering is to concentrate your political opponents' support, so that they have a small number of large majorities, and to spread out your own, so that you have a large number of small majorities. This will presumably tend to make some areas more homogeneous and some less.
- mhuffman 9y agoIt's both! One's called "cracking" and the other is called "packing".