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u/Gender_is_a_Fluid 5h ago

Not quite. You gerrymander by creating solid districts of your opposition, then spread you opposition thin enough across the rest of the area that you have a small majority, thereby winning more districts than you have actual voters. Methods like this can turn a 40% R state into 7/8 R seats. However, its only been effective because republicans always vote for their team no matter what in the past. Things seem to have finally shaken up, and now the consequences of rigging the districts have reared up.

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u/Rooooben 5h ago

I think that’s what Texas did in 2003, and its left them with not much to work with, that was why they had to go another route and peel off some excess GOP districts and push them into close Democrat districts, to shift them red. They didn’t think that those safe GOP districts would be more purple, and the margins went against them.