Abstract: While there is a vast and illuminating literature on how various voting schemes instantiate democratic values, the common practice of determining legislative representation by geographic location has been relatively unexplored in formal political philosophy. In this talk, I present a qualitative picture of the role of districting in democracy, and indicate how it can be treated formally in an analogous way to traditional social choice theory. On my account, gerrymandering is undemocratic because it is procedurally unfair, whereas geographic districting is pro-democratic if and when it instrumentally protects minority interests from the tyranny of the majority. I argue that these considerations yield overlapping but importantly distinct prescriptions for analyzing the successes and failures of districting, and developing clearer policy guidelines surrounding the practice.