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In reply to the discussion: Justices rule 5-4 that independent panels can draw election district lines [View all]Kber
(5,043 posts)And, of course, those that have a referendum mechanism, which may be most but not all (?).
For example, Texas (Yes Texas!) has a lot more democrats than you'd think by looking at state and federal representatives. Austin is actually broken up into multiple pie pieces so that the more liberal residents in any given neighborhood can be "balanced out" by more conservative areas outside the city.
It is not inconceivable that the voters in a state like Texas (or NJ, where I live) may someday get fed up with being continually underrepresented and vote in a fairer system. That's exactly what happened in supposedly rock solid red Arizona.
A more subtle change, maybe (hopefully) is that lawmakers might realize their seats aren't as secure as they thought and drift back towards the actual majority of their voters. Long shot, but this case at least leaves that door cracked, of only a tiny bit.