Assignment 8

Political geography

  1. Using Princeton’s Gerrymandering Project, you will retrieve information for various US states and fill in the information for the chart below. Ideally you should choose a mixture of states with different grades along with those that have a sizable population and representation by more than one political party.
State name Partisan fairness Competitiveness Geographic features
State 1
State 2
State 3
State 4
State 5

  1. For one of the states you selected above, take a screenshot of the most bizarrely shaped district you can find, and include it in your document.

  2. Summarize your results in a few sentences. What surprises you? What aligns with you expectations? How does this make you feel about the democratic process in the USA?