If that is the case as you say, then explain the seat for Corrine Brown! I contend what we are seeing is the end of the charade that one side is more centered to one ideological philosophy than the other. They are simply two ends to a single means and we the serfs are the meat in the sandwich.
Meanwhile, the popularly approved anti-gerrymandering amendment in the Florida Constitution specifies that "No apportionment plan or district shall be drawn with the intent to favor or disfavor a political party or an incumbent . . ."
Thus, as a matter of law, Alan West could not be protected in redistricting. The amendment that put that language in the Florida Constitution and that hurt West was drawn up by and campaigned for by a liberal group and backed heavily by the Democratic Party and its interest groups and by the state's newspapers.