🏛️ Architecture & Design May 18, 2026 · Rachel Paese

The line, now drawn

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The line, now drawn
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In his recent oral arguments, Chief Justice John Roberts described Louisiana’s newly defunct 6th Congressional District as a snake, a caustic nod to the way it wound across the state, spanning some 200 miles connecting parts of Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Alexandria, and Lafayette.  



(We’ve been describing it as a sash, but why quibble?)



Credit: Wikimedia Commons



District 6 is now gone, erased by new lines drawn by a familiar hand, a voting map created after a mara

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