I considered tacking on "Southern Fried Redistricting" to the title, but it would have broken my format for the series so I'm wasting your time to mention it here.
The concept behind this series is simple, the proportional body of Congress, the House, is brutally gerrymandered throughout the country. I wanted to look at some states where possible independently produced 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 covered Texas and Pennsylvania.