• @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    321 year ago

    You mean a state run by Republicans that gerrymanders to make sure black people are underrepresented has a horrifyingly racist rural town?

    This is the sort of thing conservatives conserve.

    • @tallwookie@lemmy.world
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      81 year ago

      presumably they’re conserving their way of life. reconstruction should have been permanent, as it doesnt appear to have stuck around after them yankees left

    • @complacent_jerboa@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      it’s actually not gerrymandering. it’s not having a mayoral election at all, and just treating “mayor” as a hereditary, monarchist-style title.

      • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        I didn’t say the mayoral feudalism was the result of gerrymandering. I was saying that both forms of undemocratic fuckery are driven by the same racism.

    • @complacent_jerboa@lemmy.world
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      -11 year ago

      it’s actually not gerrymandering. it’s not having a mayoral election at all, and just treating “mayor” as a hereditary, monarchist-style title.