State Republicans take different paths to ‘cracking’ Democratic House members from power

Published January 15, 2022 10:15am ET



Tennessee and Kentucky are Republican-leaning states that share a long border. But GOP leaders are taking starkly different paths to redistricting.

Republican state legislators are using the time-honored practice of “cracking” the opposition party’s population strongholds to distribute heavily Democratic areas into several surrounding Republican areas.

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