So how can a ban on partisan gerrymandering be a solution to the demise of the VRA? Because, in the United States, minority population patterns—often in clusters both in urban and rural areas—are such that lines drawn using well-established good government standards, but without attention to race or party, will tend to include enough minority voters to permit the natural creation of minority-majority districts and minority opportunity districts throughout the country. 

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