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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerATC" data-source="post: 1597080" data-attributes="member: 9576"><p>"sold down the river" dates back to slavery days, when slaves were sold in the North and then shipped down the river to the cotton fields of the South.</p><p></p><p>"Gerrymandering" dates back to Eldridge Gerry, former Governor of Massachusetts, who redrew the district lines in the state to benefit his party. Supposedly, one of the districts was said to look like a salamander, so the Boston Gazette termed the re-districting "Gerrymandering", mixing the governor's name and "salamander".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerATC, post: 1597080, member: 9576"] "sold down the river" dates back to slavery days, when slaves were sold in the North and then shipped down the river to the cotton fields of the South. "Gerrymandering" dates back to Eldridge Gerry, former Governor of Massachusetts, who redrew the district lines in the state to benefit his party. Supposedly, one of the districts was said to look like a salamander, so the Boston Gazette termed the re-districting "Gerrymandering", mixing the governor's name and "salamander". [/QUOTE]
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