UnfairAd7220 t1_iwqrugv wrote on November 17, 2022 at 5:29 PM

Error in the editorial: Republicans didn't exist when Gerry came up with the gerrymander. So.. No. He didn't do it to help republicans.

Thanks to the overt gerrymandering in MD, IL, CT, NJ, CA, and NY, all controlled by democrats, I'd argue that this article is meretricious.

AMC4x4 OP t1_iwqvsje wrote on November 17, 2022 at 5:54 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic-Republican_Party

The article probably should have clarified a bit. The Democratic-Republican Party was known at the time as the Republican Party and was founded in 1792, dissolved in 1834.

It was also known as the Jeffersonian Republican Party, the ticket under which Elbridge Gerry was elected VP. So he very much was trying to help "Republicans."