Republicans Foil What Majority Wants by Gerrymandering
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Michigan’s 14th congressional district looks like a jagged letter ’S’ lying on its side.
From Detroit, one of the nation’s most Democratic cities, it meanders to the west, north and east, scooping up the black-majority cities of Southfield and Pontiac while bending sharply to avoid Bloomfield Hills, the affluent suburb where 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was raised.