mapshadow
/ˈmæpˌʃædəʊ/nounVerified NewThe sense, among voters in engineered districts, that the outcome is drawn before the vote — and the political fatalism that follows.
People can trace their district's line by heart and name what it was built to produce. Participation persists; the belief that it decides anything has quietly left.
Etym. — map + shadow; the line falls across the electorate the way a shadow falls across a field.
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