Utah Gov. Spencer Cox expressed concern last week at the long-term impact of the widening redistricting battle in America.

“Sometimes, I think we make changes to long-standing norms and policies, not realizing the consequences of those changes to those norms and policies,” Cox said in his weekly press conference. “I fear that this may be one of those.”

Raising the possibility of “every two or four years we’re redistricting,” the governor said, “I can’t see a scenario where that makes life better for anybody.”

Scholars we contacted at Utah’s universities largely agree with the governor’s concern, while highlighting this as a systemic problem among both political parties.

Josh Ryan, political scientist, Utah State University

Josh M. Ryan is a professor of Political Science at Utah State

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