If we did the drawing in MT we could try and draw districts with the same GOP strength.
“If we did the drawing in MT we could try and draw districts with the same GOP strength.”
But we won’t have to worry about that, since MT won’t be getting its second CD back. Remember, it barely lost its second CD after 1990, and grew by 12.9% from 1990 to 2000, and still fell short of picking one up (and wasn’t one of the nearest misses, either). And after it grew by 9.7% from 2000 to 2010 it fell even further back. MT recently passed the 1 million mark in population in a Census estimate; the average CD will have like 800,000 people in it after the 2020 Census, and Rhode Island, which still has more population than MT, will drop to a single CD after that Census.