It took 140 years to break the Dem legislative gerrymander in TN (and they had ceased getting a majority of the vote almost 20 years ago). The GOP only got to draw the lines in 2012. The House of Cards gerrymander the Dems had built their seats on was so tenuous that they dropped from a majority to 30% of the seats in the House and 20% in the Senate in just two election cycles. A good chance, too, it will decline even further (in the State Senate, we have a 26-7 majority and 2 of those 7 seats are GOP-leaning districts).
Gerrymandering is a disgrace. Both sides are 100 perceng guilty. I wish the would pass laws against it. They totally took our congressional district and split it five ways under 5 different districts to ensure our city does not have any representation. It is a travesty and should be stopped!! We will NEVER get rid of John Boehner because he has made his district so gerrymandered that he won by 99 percent of the vote in 2012. Even a conservative could not win because he is so entrenched.