Not to mention the State and Federal Senate seats.

Bot to mention 25% of state D districts wiped out. The new proposed maps would cut the 2 biggest college communities in half, splitting them in with new red districts. Marion county, where Indianapolis is located had its vey wealthy northern quarter cleaved out of that very blue 7th district into my district, a very purple district in 2010. The new map would further shrink the 7th into the 5th and expand the 5th halfway into a college county that locally is very blue. All of the college towns representations will be fucked. 2 D district's left, the lower 2/3d's of the county Indianapolis is in and East Chicago/Gary. They cleaved off Hammond and South Bend into new R districts also with the new maps.

look at new england. there are no republican congress critters from new england. illinois is gerrymandered to a stupid degree - look at the districts.

the vast majority of states carve out and gerrymander for the benefit of the party in power. it isn't right - no matter which party is doing it. this is why state legislatures shouldn't be the ones creating congressional districts. apparently, they can't be trusted. i don't know what the solution is. maybe base it on population - if you have a certain percentage of democrats or republicans in a state - then perhaps their congressional delegation should reflect that percentage. i don't know. the system in existence at present, however, obviously doesn't work and is prone to corruption.

No way, no how! Whilst I agree there's a point to SOME both siderism to gerrymandering in principle, the fact of the matter mid-decade gerrymandering (except when standing maps, usually after reapportionment after a census, having been being found unconstitutional) was only done once before, by you guessed it, Texas in 2003. It's what assured that TX would steadily move to the right for the next 20 years once SCOTUS up held it in 2006. NO BLUE STATE has done it mid census without being forced to by a court. Ohio voted and passed an amendment requiring independent panels, the repuke legislature told them to go get fucked. Same with MO. Hell those 2 states have repealed immediately an untold number of things the voters approved via public ballots and wanted because thats what THEY do, not us, when they have full power. I'll buy gerrymandering in and of itself HAS been done in the past by both sides but what the repukes are doing now is completely out of control. There is NO BOTH SIDES to this mid census partisan map BS.

AND I'll add by our side playing more fairly when it comes to these maps, by requiring more indepent panels to draw them etc than they do or even offering them on the ballot every 10 years, repukes have beat us 2-1 with the number of super majorities in state legislatures. ]THAT RIGHT THERE is where they are heading with these mid census maps because they are a handful of states away from a Constitutional Convention. They so close they can taste it like a starving lion whose been following a herd of Zebras for months. They know they will NEVER get this chance in another 150 years and they will DIE!. The midterms are a head fake. The Constitutional Convention is the final touchdown, game over.