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I was curious, as I know left, democratic, progressive people who live in OK. Here are some links related to gerrymandering in OK
https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/reforms/ok/
https://www.stateregstoday.com/politics/election-and-voting/gerrymandering-in-oklahoma
tl;dr - OK is gerrymandered AF. As the low effort / informationally sparse post above clearly demonstrates.
County boundaries aren't all that relevant to gerrymandering. They've been set basically since Oklahoma was a state, probably before that even.
There is no way to draw districts in OK that would result in anyone but Republicans winning elections there. It is a shitty state full of the kind of shitty people who are categorically opposed to extending kindness to anyone outside their immediate social circle.
I'm going to say this as someone who also does not, clearly you've never been to church!
OK being gerrymandered is true, but this is a county map, not precincts. OK isnt redrawing county lines to gerrymander
I appreciate the articles. For anyone in the U.S. that has never been to a lot of the gerrymander states, please visit some of them.
It will not only be an eye opening experience but a lesson on why the left is not far enough.
Legal slavery, open abuse, massive gaslighting, and no way out. States that have power to change need to do a lot more. Instead we get the pelosi, schumer, and feinstein (yeah I'm talking about you, pos). Any time we get someone that wants to be a centrist or libertarian, it is equal to voting for a MAGA type.
Gerrymandering is entirely irrelevant for presidential elections, since the state's votes get added up at the end anyway. To gerrymander for presidential elections you'd need to be redrawing state borders.
Holy shit, they beat Mississippi?
Edit: this research included D.C. so New Mexico actually ranked 51 making it the worst.
If you’ve never been, there’s a functional oil derrick in front of their capitol complex. 85% of the state functions like the movie “There will be blood.”
They have a whole celebration around eating bull testicles. The roads are long and straight like Kansas and Iowa…oh, and they’re toll roads. Most of the people I talked to hated it there and wanted to get the hell out. By far my least favorite state I’ve visited.
Don’t get me wrong, there are some decent things there. Red River is cool, watching a terrifyingly enormous thunderhead clap in the distance at night is starkly beautiful. It’s chock full of tribal culture and native and folk art. It’s the birthplace of Sonic Drive Ins and one of the smartest Product Managers I know came from there. But there’s a reason sometimes Oklahoma is removed from contiguous maps of the US.
OK
Tulsa has a few good people but that state is just such a shit show
Are you surprised by this?
Not the citizens fault our country is in a stranglehold
Quit helping the ones that control our politicians and owns the voting machines
Doing a good enough job without the bootlicking
