FUN FACT: Congressional districts do not have to be contiguous in 11 states (user search)
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  FUN FACT: Congressional districts do not have to be contiguous in 11 states (search mode)
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WalterWhite
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« on: August 10, 2023, 12:37:23 AM »

Source: https://www.ncsl.org/redistricting-and-census/redistricting-criteria

Congressional districts do not have to be contiguous in Arkansas, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin. There appears to be no federal statute or court case specifying that Congressional districts be contiguous.

Theoretically, there is nothing stopping any of these state legislatures from engineering Congressional maps that feature non-contiguous districts.
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WalterWhite
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« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2023, 12:48:09 AM »

This means that this is a perfectly valid New Hampshire Congressional map:

https://davesredistricting.org/join/7d811bec-8c26-45dc-a5f1-3fb054348aeb
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