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To: Road Walker who wrote (246722)	8/20/2005 3:44:47 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572208

Actually your map looks normal compared to ours... you have some squares. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong one. Actually, what you need to do is use the zoom feature and key in on Houston, Dallas and the other urban areas of the state. Its there you will see the strange wiggles and elongations and other oddly shaped districts. Its in those heavily urban areas where ie a democratic section of the city is purged in order to make a GOP's district more GOP. Its those random purges that are responsible for the odd shapes. In the country of TX where populations are much thinner and mostly GOP, its much easier to make the districts look square. However, FLA is different.......that's why the map is different. I suspect Democratic vs GOP districts are not as cleanly defined by urban vs rural as they are in TX. ted