{"id":2814,"date":"2021-10-22T07:55:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T12:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2021-10-22T08:18:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T13:18:17","slug":"atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/2021\/10\/22\/atlas\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlas of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0The Atlas of Redistricting: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/redistricting-maps\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/redistricting-maps\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/files\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-22-at-9.17.07-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2824\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/files\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-22-at-9.17.07-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2788\" height=\"1572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/files\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-22-at-9.17.07-AM.png 2788w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/files\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-22-at-9.17.07-AM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/files\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-22-at-9.17.07-AM-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/files\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-22-at-9.17.07-AM-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/files\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-22-at-9.17.07-AM-1536x866.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/files\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-22-at-9.17.07-AM-2048x1155.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2788px) 100vw, 2788px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gerrymandering has become a familiar household term, and most Americans would agree that districts are unfairly drawn by both Republicans and Democrats in order to benefit their own parties. In preparation for the 2018 election, this interactive atlas has built several maps at both national and state levels with different purposes, such as drawing lines fairly to encourage competitive elections, drawing to distinctively favor either party, and drawing to benefit minorities. Although the 2018 midterms have passed, the issue of gerrymandering has not; exploring this altas can help with understanding of the complexity of the process and how much political power geography holds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The Atlas of Redistricting: https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/redistricting-maps\/ Gerrymandering has become a familiar household term, and most Americans would agree that districts are unfairly drawn by both Republicans and Democrats in order to benefit their own parties. In preparation for the 2018 election, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/2021\/10\/22\/atlas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2825,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions\/2825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}