{"id":7573,"date":"2013-12-10T15:17:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T20:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=7573"},"modified":"2021-12-15T21:46:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T02:46:38","slug":"pragmatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2013\/12\/10\/pragmatism\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Texas to follow counties&#8217; pragmatic approach: end prison gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  One thing I didn&#8217;t mention in <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2013\/12\/09\/tilove\/\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a> about Jonathan Tilove&#8217;s<a href=\"web.archive.org\/web\/20131203205709\/http:\/\/www.mystatesman.com\/news\/news\/prisoners-cant-vote-but-they-can-subtly-shift-poli\/nb72B\/\"> article<\/a> is the coverage it received at the Texas criminal justice blog, Grits for Breakfast: <a href=\"http:\/\/gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com\/2013\/12\/rural-counties-treat-prisoners-as.html\">Rural counties treat prisoners as political footballs when drawing electoral districts<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The whole post is worth a read for its frank analysis of Texas&#8217; state and county politics surrounding prison gerrymandering, but its conclusion summarized the state&#8217;s failure to end prison gerrymandering best:\n  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n    &#8230;as long as the topic is considered through the lens of state-level partisanship instead of county-level pragmatism, changing it in the near future would be an uphill climb.\n  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grits for Breakfast argues that Texas should follow its local governments&#8217; pragmatic approach to redistricting and avoid prison gerrymandering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[30],"class_list":["post-7573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9912,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573\/revisions\/9912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7573"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}