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To: JohnM who wrote (49634)	6/9/2004 3:48:52 PM
From: frankw1900	Respond to of 793990

The reason I asked about GOP Black membership is that change in membership will be a leading indicator for future Black votes. Given increasing Black participation in the middle class, I expect their GOP membership is also increasing but not yet in a large way because habits of thought take a while to catch up wiith change in circumstance.. Gerrymandering is a way of denying participation and therefore is polarizing and thus might solidify voting patterns which otherwise might be more fluid. Both parties will do it where they can get away with it and it's long term stupid. I tend not to criticize US domestic political behaviour because folk who live in glass houses, etc, but giving incumbents such a big edge is really anti-democratic and leads to increasing amounts of the stuff you see on the fringe donkey and elephant boards getting out onto the street and into the legislatures and Congress. Representatives of both parties should start having some quiet talks about this after November. It's not an easy thing to deal with, given your constitutional arrangements, and the general pyschology of partisanship once it gets well established.