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Subject:
modern gerrymandering--maps and political divisiveness (SCOTUS, Alabama case, Voting Rights Act)
From:
Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
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Maps-L: Discussion Forum for Maps, Air Photo, Map Librarianship, GIS, etc." <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:39:55 -0500
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This appeared in yesterday's _NY Times_: "Race, Politics and Drawing 
Maps: The Supreme Court Hears an Alabama Case on the Voting Rights Act"
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/opinion/the-supreme-court-hears-an-alabama-case-on-the-voting-rights-act.html

A more general discussion appeared a few years ago in _The Atlantic_: 
"The League of Dangerous Mapmakers"
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/the-league-of/309084/

This is an old subject: 
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo3645208.html .

          Joel Kovarsky

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