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Unread 11-26-2012, 03:06 AM
Jerome Betts Jerome Betts is offline
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Douglas, 'gerrymander' is still current here in political and parliamentary contexts. I'd assumed it was from Northern Island, but Massachusetts 1812 and Governor Gerry + salamander from the shape of a district
on a political map, it seems.
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