Danielle Thomsen

As [associate professor and] political scientist Danielle Thomsen has written, when it comes to partisan polarization in Congress, “the academic consensus is that gerrymandering matters anywhere from a little bit to not at all,” with an increasing trend of Democrats wanting to live with Democrats and Republicans wanting to live and associate with Republicans emerging as much more consequential.

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