This is the second installment, after this first one:
Yeah, I said some hilarious things there, like, "I'll try to get back and finish this next week." What a riot. But the concept is still very important. The proportional body of Congress, the House, is brutally gerrymandered throughout the country. I wanted to look at some states where possible independent maps could have major ramifications on the composition of the body and the power status in America.
What I want to do with this series is to show the effect of having bipartisan public committees handle redistricting efforts, with criteria of compactness, regional interests, and party-balance, with an emphasis on creating politically competitive districts where possible.
For this I chose to tackle the states that Republicans pushed the most egregious gerrymanders, states where they mangled the rights of voters, packed Democrats, split counties with impunity, and hashed districts together with no regard for community of interests.
I have already done Pennsylvania in it's entirety, and very well I might add. Texas is a much trickier state, and larger, and so, without further ado, here is my second part, which begins with District 16.