Mini-Post: You Want To See A 300 Mile District?

You just have to look to Texas. One district is over 300 miles long so they can get enough Republican voters to offset the Democratic voters!

GOP's Texas map has Austin residents sharing district with rural Texans 300 miles away

It would "suppress the votes of Black and brown Austinites," one Democrat said.

ABC News

By Fritz Farrow and Oren Oppenheim

August 8, 2025

As Texas Republicans try to muscle a rare mid-decade redistricting bill through the Legislature to help Republicans gain seats in Congress -- at President Donald Trump's request -- residents in Austin, the state capital, could find themselves sharing a district with rural Texans more than 300 miles away.

The proposed map chops up Central Texas' 37th Congressional District, which is currently represented by Democrat Rep. Lloyd Doggett, will be consumed by four neighboring districts, three of which Republicans now hold.

One of those portions of the Austin-area district was drawn to be part of the 11th District that Republican Rep. August Pfluger represents, which stretches into rural Ector County, about 20 miles away from the New Mexico border

This is why the Democratic legislators fled the state! Look at the gerrymandering! 

Notice how it snakes through the city of Austin to dilute the votes of Blacks and Latinos living in the city!

That would mean people in that area would share a congressman with people who live more than 311 miles away, a distance that is about 15 times more than that between them and those who currently live the farthest away.

There needs are different! Rural folk have different needs that city people. When your nearest neighbor is ten miles away is a lot different then when you can lean out of your window and ask your neighbor for some sugar! But the Republicans lumped them all together for one reason... to consolidate their power!