The Republicans who controlled the Utah Legislature in 2011 did their level best to draw four congressional districts that would create safe seats for their fellow pachyderms in the elections to come.
They didn’t do what fairness and respect for communities of interest would have dictated — making the bulk of Salt Lake County one district in the middle and then creating three others to encompass the rest of the state.
Instead, like Caesar in Gaul, they divided all of Salt Lake County into three parts. Each sliver was lumped in with much more conservative electorates stretching from the Avenues to St.