Gerrymandering Lives in Maryland
That's a special cartographic skill they have there
Maryland is still the undisputed U.S. champion, when it comes to drawing sprawling, weirdly shaped congressional districts, according to a soon-to-be-released national study.
Maryland has the least compact congressional districts in the nation, based on four mathematical tools for compactness, Azavea, a geographic information services firm in Philadelphia, plans to report in a white paper.
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