Redistricting 101

Civic engagement is a useful tool that can help any organization advance its mission. In this useful one-page fact sheet you’ll learn the three major factors in civic engagement success and see FCCP’s key recommendations for funding the civic engagement work of your grantees.

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The Redistricting Game is an online, interactive game that is designed to educate, engage, and empower citizens around the issue of political redistricting. Currently, the political system in most states allows the state legislators themselves to draw the lines.read more >>

Gerrymandering, a new documentary film, exposes how district lines are redrawn for political gain.  View a trailer of the documentary.

State Population Change Estimates (Map)

Source: POLIDATA

Redistricting: Reading Between the Lines, an academic article by Raymond La Raja

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Redistricting 101, a powerpoint presentation by Justin Levitt, gives a comprehensive overview of redistricting.

Source:  Brennan Center for Justice

Projections of Members of U.S. House by State 2012-2020 (Map)

Source: POLIDATA

Issues in Redistricting Reform, a presentation by Kathay Feng

Talking Points from the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (Summer 2009)read more >>

• The rights of racial minorities to participate equally in the electoral process must be protected. In many areas of the country, redistricting reform will take political power away from minorities just as they have begun to gain meaningful representation in state legislatures within the last two redistricting cycles.

The Impact of Redistricting in YOUR Community, a redistricting guide compiled by NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Asian American Justice Center, and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund

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