{"id":92414,"date":"2022-02-28T17:08:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T17:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=92414"},"modified":"2022-02-28T17:08:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T17:08:43","slug":"blood-red-how-lopsided-new-district-lines-are-deepening-americas-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=92414","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;\u2018Blood Red\u2019: How Lopsided New District Lines Are Deepening America\u2019s Divide&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/27\/us\/politics\/redistricting-partisan-divide.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times: <\/a>&#8220;Representative Dan Crenshaw was tagged as a rising Republican star almost from the moment of his first victory: A conservative, Harvard-educated, ex-Navy SEAL who lost his right eye in Afghanistan, he bucked the 2018 suburban revolt against Donald J. Trump to win a House seat in the Houston suburbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Crenshaw won again in 2020, handily, even as Mr. Trump carried his district by only a whisper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this year, Mr. Crenshaw\u2019s seat has been transformed by redistricting. More liberal enclaves, like the nightlife-rich neighborhoods near Rice University, were swapped out for conservative strongholds like The Woodlands, a master-planned community of more than 100,000 that is north of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result: Mr. Trump would have carried the new seat in a landslide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new lines mean Mr. Crenshaw now has a vanishingly slim chance of losing to a Democrat in the next decade. The only political threat would have to come from the far right \u2014 which, as it happens, is already agitating against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All across the nation, political mapmakers have erected similarly impenetrable partisan fortresses through the once-in-a-decade redrawing of America\u2019s congressional lines. Texas, which holds the nation\u2019s first primaries on Tuesday, is an especially extreme example of how\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/06\/us\/politics\/redistricting-competition-midterms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">competition between the two parties<\/a>\u00a0has been systemically erased.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/06\/us\/politics\/redistricting-competition-midterms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nearly 90 percent<\/a>\u00a0of the next House could be occupied by lawmakers who, like Mr. Crenshaw, face almost no threat of losing a general election, a precipitous drop that dramatically changes the political incentives and pressures they confront.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;Representative Dan Crenshaw was tagged as a rising Republican star almost from the moment of his first victory: A conservative, Harvard-educated, ex-Navy SEAL who lost his right eye in Afghanistan, he bucked the 2018 suburban revolt against Donald J. Trump to win a House seat in the Houston suburbs. 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