baconmander

present singular third person baconmanders · participle present baconmandering · participle past baconmandered · past baconmandered

1. derogatorytransitiveTo gerrymander a geographic area into long, narrow strips.

   Democrats effectively “baconmandered” Northern Virginia, meaning that they cut up the heavily Democratic region’s core into narrow strips emanating out to much of the rest of the state.

   2026 February 6, Kyle Kondik, J. Miles Coleman, “How We Would Rate the Democrats’ Proposed Virginia Gerrymander”, in Sabato's Crystal Ball

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   An aggressive gerrymander might be able to eliminate a downstate Republican district while preserving Cheri Bustos’ district in northwestern Illinois and without weakening Lauren Underwood in the Chicago suburbs. One would probably have to “baconmander” Chicago (the term for stretching districts from city cores into rural areas) or perhaps extend Bustos’ district into Springfield.

   2020 November 12, Sean Trende, “What Redrawn Districts Could Mean for House Control in 2023”, in RealClearPolitics

   […] the Commission’s maps gut traditional communities of interest with their long, baconmandered districts that blow through numerous municipal boundaries to combine poor, predominantly Black urban municipalities with wealthy, predominately white suburban municipalities.

   2023 June 20, John J. Bursch, et al., “Plaintiffs’ Reply Brief in Support of Their Motion for Summary Judgment”, in Agee v. Benson