With the passing of new congressional districting in the recent election, Maryland's Eastern Shore has no voice. Maryland is now the most gerrymandered state in America.
The Eastern Shore has always been a distinctive region, and has several times attempted to split off from the state of Maryland. Early proposals encompassed a state of the entire Delmarva Peninsula. Senators Richard F. Colburn and J. Lowell Stoltzfus sponsored a Maryland Senate Bill - (SB 564) - that would have provided a question to be placed on the 1998 General Election ballot. The initiative would have tested the waters for the eastern shore to become its own separate state, however, the question never made it to the ballot. It is time that the residents of the Eastern Shore be able to have their voices heard.