Democrats howling at Texas redistrict push should take a look in the mirror

ny post opinion ^ | 08/05/2025 | Rich Lowry

[BenLurkin]

Let’s take a tour of the 13th Congressional District in Illinois.

It starts in East St. Louis and then moves steadily north.

By the time it gets to Springfield, home of Abraham Lincoln, about 90 miles away, it takes a sharp turn to the east, reaching Decatur and finally Champaign, itself about 80 miles away from Springfield.

It’s a jagged, narrow strip of territory with no obvious rhyme or reason as it traverses six counties.

It’s less a congressional district than a road trip, and bears a resemblance to the original gerrymander, a long, salamander-like state Senate district in Massachusetts in 1812.

The only point of the new 13th District lines, fashioned in the redistricting after the 2020 Census, was to gather together far-flung Democrats to create another Democratic congressional district.

Mission accomplished: The 13th went from being a competitive district long held by a Republican to flipping to the Democrats in 2022.

Overall, Illinois lost one district after the 2020 Census and managed to write lines that changed the congressional ratio from a 13-5 Democratic advantage to a 14-3 Democratic advantage.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: democrats; gerrymander; gerrymandering; redistricting; texas

[midwest_hiker]

No, the Dems don't have to do anything. The press will do it all for them. The ignorant left leaning public will eat every word to the last crumb and beg for more.
The left will ignore any “proof” of the irony and shrug any evidence as a right wing conspiracy.

[FreedBird]

A bunch of hypocrites.

[Pearfect]

VOTE HYPOCRITE DEMOCRATS OUT !!!

[Leaning Right]

Simple solution: No district can be more than four times longer than it is wide at its narrowest point. Do not count narrow points bounded on both sides by state borders.

Supreme Court, are you listening?

[webheart]

They don’t need to look in any mirrors. They know what they are doing and they know what they have done and they know what they will continue to do because they have one goal in mind. You can tell them whatever you want and they will have an argument that completely avoids what you are saying.

When I was a kid I played chess with my older brother. We agreed to the rules: touch a piece you have to move it, let go of it and you can’t take it back. I was the better player so I would be winning and he didn’t want to lose so he didn’t adhere to the rules such that he was undoing two moves. I would try to reverse a move and he wouldn’t allow it. He said he just wanted to play the best game. It required him to be unbound by the rules and me to be bound by rules.

He was the Democrat and I was the Republican. Democrats will always redefine the rules at the exact time when they are needed. They are immune to being called hypocrites while they vehemently disdain hypocrisy.

[MinorityRepublican]

Even Colbert pointed it out to Gov. JB Pritzker lol

[webheart]

And quit saying democratic when talking about the Democrat party. They are not democratic they are socialists.

[Bob434]

maybe the democrats shoudl give back all the districts that they gained under redistricting

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

This district in question represents St. Louis, not the interests of Illinois. This proves how the urbanites in Chicago will protect their urban areas at the expense of everyone else.

The people in Springfield have zero things in common with St. Louis. The University of Illinois and the outlying areas of St. Louis, Missouri as one congressional district, and everyone else is sacrificed. As I said about Clyburn’s Sixth, there is no commonality in the area.

Little League Baseball would reject this region because there is no commonality.

[vpintheak]

It’s only OK if THEY do it! What don’t you peasants understand!?

[suthener]

This story is irritating the crap out of me because I am a victim of gerrymandering. I am represented by a low IQ, corrupt, liberal black male because I live literally 100 yards inside of the boundaries drawn by some idiot (I believe Obama nominated) federal judge. It would be bad even if the only objective is to get blacks elected, but everyone knows that it equals a democrat getting elected. If you cut my state up into equal sections of population in a fair, unbiased manner there would be no democrat representatives. And that’s how it should be.