#194: How Gerrymandering Turned America from Red to Blue Featuring Dave Daley

Redistricting has increasingly transformed the Congressional delegations of many states. Even slight changes in streets and neighborhoods can drastically shift who represents each district.
 
Journalist Dave Daley joins Sam Wang and Julian Zelizer in this episode to speak about redistricting and gerrymandering across the United States. Daley’s book, “Ratf**ked,” examines the legacy of Republican redistricting efforts in the 2010s. Daley, Wang, and Zelizer trace the history of gerrymandering since the late 1700s and explore how technology has accelerated the issue.
 
Daley also is the author of the new book “Unrigged: How Americans are Battling Back Efforts to Save Democracy.” He is the former editor-in-chief of Salon.com, and the former CEO and publisher of the Connecticut News Project. He is a digital media fellow at the Wilson Center for the Humanities and the Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia. He has appeared in the New Yorker, Washington Post, The Guardian, and Rolling Stone.