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Political Boundaries

  • April 3, 2015
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

“Gerrymandering” is redrawing the borders of an electoral district to give one political party an advantage. The term was coined in 1812, after Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry passed a law creating an oddly shaped district that looked kind of like a salamander. (Elkanah Tisdale, Boston Centinel, 1812)

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