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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Also, they were normal until the Republicans started gerrymandering all those other aforementioned states after the 2000 census.[/quote]

[quote=Anonymous]Connie Morella (R) was gerrymandered out in 2003. [/quote]
Yes, that was after the 2000 census as I pointed out above. 2003 was the first year she wasn’t in office, because she lost in the 2002 election which was the first one since lines were redrawn after the 2000 census. Just like this fall’s elections will be the first since the 2020 census.

[quote=Anonymous] Roscoe Bartlett (R) was gerrymandered out in 2013. [/quote]
Yes, see above, but that was after the 2010 census. Republican gerrymandering got way worse after the Tea Party wave election. Maryland reacted by trying to gain a seat for the party since they were getting outfoxed by Republican legislatures in dozens of other states.

[quote=Anonymous]Don’t pretend both parties do do this. [/quote]
Why are you pretending they don’t?

[b][i]“In the 26 states that account for 85 percent of congressional districts, Republicans derive a net benefit of at least 16 to 17 congressional seats in the current Congress from partisan bias. Just seven states account for almost all of the bias. Michigan, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania consistently have the most extreme levels of partisan bias. Collectively, the distortion in their maps has accounted for seven to ten extra Republican seats in each of the three elections since the 2011 redistricting, amounting to one-third to one-half of the total partisan bias across the states we analyzed. Florida, Ohio, Texas, and Virginia have less severe partisan bias but jointly account for most of the remaining net extra Republican seats in the examined states.” [/i][/b]
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/extreme-maps

State courts have had to repeatedly overturn Republican-drawn maps in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Here’s a map of the worst states for gerrymandering as of 2017 according to the Election Integrity Project. Admittedly Maryland is orange but there are a whole bunch of other states that are red for more than one reason.
[img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCzeJACW0AAP4WE.jpg[/img]
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uo2mtb5oyl5bu1k/PEI-US-2016%20Report.pdf?dl=0

[quote=Anonymous]And Maryland Democrats are trying to gerrymander the last Republican congressman, Andy Harris, out of office. [/quote]
Actually, there were some other options that were way worse for Harris that they didn’t pick. Here’s one; it even looks less “insane freakshow” than the one that passed: [twitter]https://twitter.com/redistrict/status/1334963050110181377?s=21[/twitter]
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