{"id":39201,"date":"2025-08-28T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=39201"},"modified":"2025-08-28T14:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:20:26","slug":"nelsen-comments-on-congressional-redistricting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/nelsen-comments-on-congressional-redistricting\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelsen comments on congressional redistricting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/brent-nelsen\/\">Brent Nelsen<\/a>, a regular contributor on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/video\/2025\/08\/22\/local-expert-redistricting-battle\/\">FOX Carolina News<\/a>, unravels the nuances of redistricting, or the practice of redrawing congressional and state legislative districts post-census to reflect population changes. Nelsen, the Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of Politics and International Affairs, spoke with FOX Carolina anchor Justin Dougherty about the &#8220;hyper partisan&#8221; nature of redistricting mid-decade to impact 2026 midterm elections. In Texas, for example, the state legislature hopes to gain five seats in the House, effectively keeping the Republican Party in the driver&#8217;s seat. As a retaliatory measure, California is redrawing its boundaries to capture more seats for the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman&#8217;s Brent Nelsen unravels the nuances of redistricting when he joins FOX Carolina News&#8217; Justin Dougherty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":39202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39219,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39201\/revisions\/39219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}