Tennessee's redistricting in 2022 divided Nashville into three congressional districts. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)

There’s no shortage of symptoms pointing to the declining health of American democracy these days, but the Texas-California (and beyond) congressional redistricting rhubarb has to rank as one of the most acute. Using a legislative majority to redraw maps off-schedule for the sole purpose of inflating and locking in partisan advantage that actual voter demographics and preferences would never support feels like precisely the opposite of functional representative government.

Nashvillians, of course, know this sort of thing intimately: we’ve been living nakedly partisan line-drawing first-hand ever since the state’s GOP majority in 2022 cracked Music City’s relia

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