Tonight’s Banner Lecture was Gerrymanders: How Redistricting Has Protected Slavery, White Supremacy, and Partisan Minorities in Virginia by Brent Tarter. The author, seen here, was a first rate speaker and kept his audience engaged with style and wit. Did you know that although this strategy for electing officials sympathetic to your agenda is practiced world-wide, it was named for Gov. Gerry of Massachusetts?
Oh an old government here used Gerrymanders to hold on to power. He was so bad, that the word "Bjelkemander" is used to describe him and his voting sheep.
