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You sure Frost is toast??

Certainly his district is. His district has been divided among several new ones, taking away any reasonable likliehood he'd win any one of them. He can shop around for another district, but it will be a challenge.

What the media won't report is that the Republican districting plan is likely to increase minority representation (assuming one buys into the assumption that minority representation can only come from someone of that minority - I do not), especially Hispanic. Before, Martin Frost's gerrymandering (and he was the principal architect in 1990) put a lot of Hispanics and African-Americans together to make guaranteed Democrat districts, but with the only viable compromise candidates being 'white' Democrats. And of course, Frost packed Republicans as densely as possible into as few districts as possible. Now, the districts are drawn so that (mostly) Anglo Republicans will replace some Anglo Democrats, and Hispanics Democrats will likely replace other Anglo Democrats.

The key is, Anglo Dem Frost is very likely to be looking for a job.

Right. This killed the white Democrat liberal coalition candidates. Lloyd Doggett in 10CD was like that too. they paired the liberals in central austin with hispanic and black voters. Now the hispanics in austin are in a minority district that goes south to the border. Most of Austin are in Lamar Smith's CD or 10th CD.