Redistricting will break taboos. But which ones?

No matter how you slice it, the next state redistricting maps are going to thwart conventional wisdom.

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Opinion

September 3, 2021 - 1:44 PM

Every ten years, districts for Congress, state legislature, state school board, and local offices must be redrawn based on the latest Census.  The 2020 Census numbers were recently released and we already know one thing:  there will no longer be a KC-area district that incorporates all of Johnson and Wyandotte Counties.

Here in Kansas, the Kansas City-area Third District has once again gained population, while the rural “Big First” has lost people.  The Third must shed people and the Big First must gain them, all shuffled through the Second District, which…

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