英语词汇gerrymander的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

gerrymander. Above editor Benjamin Russell’s desk in the offices of the Centinel, a Massachusetts Federalist newspaper, hung the serpentine-shaped map of a new Essex County sena- torial district that began at Salisbury and included Amesbury, Haverhill, Methuen, Andover, Middleton, Danvers, Lynnfield, Salem, Marblehead, Lynn, and Chelsea. This political monster was part of a general reshaping of voting districts that the Democratic-Republican-controlled state legislature had en- acted with the approval of incumbent Governor Elbridge Ger- ry. The arbitrary redistricting would have happily enabled the Jeffersonians to concentrate Federalist power in a few districts and remain in the majority after the then yearly gubernatorial elections of 1812, and was of course opposed by the Federal- ists. So when the celebrated painter Gilbert Stuart visited the Centinel offices one day before the elections, editor Russell in- dignantly pointed to the monstrous map on the wall, inspiring Stuart to take a crayon and add head, wings, and claws to the already lizard-shaped district. “That will do for a salamander,” the artist said when he had finished. “A Gerry-mander, you mean,” Russell replied, and a name for the political creature was born, gerrymander coming into use as a verb within a year.

词汇	gerrymander
词源	gerrymander. Above editor Benjamin Russell’s desk in the offices of the Centinel, a Massachusetts Federalist newspaper, hung the serpentine-shaped map of a new Essex County sena- torial district that began at Salisbury and included Amesbury, Haverhill, Methuen, Andover, Middleton, Danvers, Lynnfield, Salem, Marblehead, Lynn, and Chelsea. This political monster was part of a general reshaping of voting districts that the Democratic-Republican-controlled state legislature had en- acted with the approval of incumbent Governor Elbridge Ger- ry. The arbitrary redistricting would have happily enabled the Jeffersonians to concentrate Federalist power in a few districts and remain in the majority after the then yearly gubernatorial elections of 1812, and was of course opposed by the Federal- ists. So when the celebrated painter Gilbert Stuart visited the Centinel offices one day before the elections, editor Russell in- dignantly pointed to the monstrous map on the wall, inspiring Stuart to take a crayon and add head, wings, and claws to the already lizard-shaped district. “That will do for a salamander,” the artist said when he had finished. “A Gerry-mander, you mean,” Russell replied, and a name for the political creature was born, gerrymander coming into use as a verb within a year.
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