The Soviet Republic of Texas
	
		
			14 Oct 2003
		
		Submitted by: Kenneth Anderson   Publisher: 
Washington Post
	 
	
		YOU MIGHT THINK America's rigged system of congressional elections couldn't get much worse. Self-serving redistricting schemes nationwide already have left an overwhelming number of seats in the House of Representatives so uncompetitive that election results are practically as preordained as in the old Soviet Union....the just-completed Texas congressional redistricting plan represents a new low.	
	
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