Believe it or not, Florida’s 24th district does not have that gerrymandered look. It is solid, shield or badge shaped, with no connecting lines.
Known as the most liberal district in the entire Southeast, it must be popping full of fruitcakes of all colors.
Frederica the Mad Hatter is starting to make Maxine Kerosene appear sane.
While a lot of gerrymandered districts have weird geographical boundaries the main thing is that they are made up of a racially or in some cases a political majority with the idea of them all voting a certain way. When the Republicans redistricted in TX they were more than happy to give the Democrats certain voters since it made their district voting blocks even more republican. This of course makes it even harder for a third party candidate to run in any district. On a smaller scale you can have a city council seat district made up of mainly Chinatown, or any other ethnic group. University towns would be heavily democrat or socialist (same thing) and are probably carved out too. Try running as a Republican in Austin TX or Madison WI, ha. This does not bode well for bringing all Americans together, the melting pot. I believe the founding fathers worried about political parties screwing up the concept of a republic.