An Idea to encourage compromise in the U.S. House of Representatives

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11. Your plan would eliminate minority majority congressional districts

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As I understand it, your plan eliminates minority majority congressional districts by having congresscritters elected statewide. Without these minority majority congressional districts, minority candidates could not get elected. I am friends with three congresscritters in minority majority congressional districts and would hate to see them lose their seats due to a rather dumb plan that would not work in the real world

Again, your amusing plan is an academic exercise that would not work in the real world. I used to debate similar plans back when I was a debater. the non-CX debate topic my senior year in high school had people advocating to get rid of parties. I really think that your plan would not work. Luckily, there is zero chance that your plan could be adopted in the real world and if adopted it would not work

I live in Tom Delay’s old district that we neatly flipped in 2020. The Texas GOP had to gerrymander the heck to keep this Distict safe in 2022. I will still be voting in 2022 for other candidates even though my congressional districts is a safe red seat. We flipped my county blue and should be picking up additional judicial seats this cycle. Democrats already control the county wide offices in my county.

I am hopeful that we can adopt the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and outlaw partisan gerrymanders