{"id":758,"date":"2016-05-11T22:06:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T02:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/co-lab\/?p=758"},"modified":"2017-06-05T11:35:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T15:35:57","slug":"people-power-and-district-politics-by-devan-feeney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.design.ncsu.edu\/co-lab\/people-power-and-district-politics-by-devan-feeney\/","title":{"rendered":"People, Power, and District Politics by Devan Feeney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/research.design.ncsu.edu\/co-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Devan_Feeney__Map-Series-2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-742 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/research.design.ncsu.edu\/co-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Devan_Feeney__Map-Series-2.jpg\" alt=\"Devan_Feeney__Map-Series-2\" width=\"2075\" height=\"2965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.design.ncsu.edu\/co-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Devan_Feeney__Map-Series-2.jpg 2075w, https:\/\/research.design.ncsu.edu\/co-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Devan_Feeney__Map-Series-2-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/research.design.ncsu.edu\/co-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Devan_Feeney__Map-Series-2-768x1097.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.design.ncsu.edu\/co-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Devan_Feeney__Map-Series-2-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/research.design.ncsu.edu\/co-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Devan_Feeney__Map-Series-2-960x1372.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2075px) 100vw, 2075px\" \/><\/a>PEOPLE, POWER, AND DISTRICT POLITICS IN NORTH CAROLINA<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe point of gerrymandering isn\u2019t to draw yourself a collection of overwhelmingly safe seats. Rather, it\u2019s to give your opponents a small number of safe seats, while drawing yourself a larger number of seats that are not quite as safe, but that you can expect to win comfortably.\u201d\u00a0&#8211; Christopher Ingraham, <em>The Washington Post\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2010, Republicans won control of both houses of the NC General Assembly for the first time since Reconstruction. Lead by the NC General Assembly, a redistricting plan consists of legislation that specifies the counties, census tracts, voting tabulation districts, or census blocks that comprise each district. This plan is translated into a bill that follows the same course through the General Assembly as any other legislation. Partisan gerrymandering, unlike racial gerrymandering, is not subject to strict scrutiny. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld that partisan gerrymanders are allowable unless they \u201cconsistently degrade a voter\u2019s or a group of voters\u2019 influence on the political process as a whole.\u201d Three of the 10 most-gerrymandered congressional districts in the nation call North Carolina home. This map explores party affiliation and party control, race, representation, and the degree to which each of North Carolina\u2019s 13 congressional districts is subject to gerrymandering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PEOPLE, POWER, AND DISTRICT POLITICS IN NORTH CAROLINA \u201cThe point of gerrymandering isn\u2019t to draw yourself a collection of overwhelmingly safe seats. Rather, it\u2019s to give your opponents a small number of safe seats, while drawing yourself a larger number of seats that are not quite as safe, but that you can expect to win<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.design.ncsu.edu\/co-lab\/people-power-and-district-politics-by-devan-feeney\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;People, Power, and District Politics by Devan Feeney&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101013,"featured_media":742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-maps-map-series-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.design.ncsu.edu\/co-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.design.ncsu.edu\/co-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.design.ncsu.edu\/co-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.design.ncsu.edu\/co-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.design.ncsu.edu\/co-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/research.design.ncsu.edu\/co-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"https:\/\/research.design.ncsu.edu\/co-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.design.ncsu.edu\/co-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.design.ncsu.edu\/co-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.design.ncsu.edu\/co-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.design.ncsu.edu\/co-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}