[AntiGuv]

PS. And if it were the case that the lines do revert back to something very close to the pre-2004 lines, then you'd almost surely have the lines shifting over in the Houston area as well. There's just no way to be sure until they start looking at how to restore the old TX-23 Bonilla district. If all those border districts end up close to what they were before, then the impact will stretch across the whole southern half of the map.

That's the point I've been trying to get across from the beginning. It may just be one district, but if you have to drastically redraw one district then of course you have to redraw the districts around it, and perhaps the districts around that, and so on. Until it's clear how much TX-23 has to get redrawn there's no way to be sure how widespread the political impact.

[hispanarepublicana]

That's the point I've been trying to get across from the beginning. It may just be one district, but if you have to drastically redraw one district then of course you have to redraw the districts around it, and perhaps the districts around that, and so on. Until it's clear how much TX-23 has to get redrawn there's no way to be sure how widespread the political impact.

I agree. Your post is spot-on. You can't redraw districts in without impacting others, especially in low-density population areas like Bonilla's.

[Torie]

Well this one should be pretty easy to unwind. You just give back to the 23rd the part of Webb that was lopped off, and excise from it an offsetting part of Anglo Bexar, give to the 28th some of the southern portion of the 25th to replace the excised part of Webb, give to the 25th more of Travis to replace the lost southern counties, and give to the 21st the Anglo Bexar precincts that the 23rd gave up.

Cuellar runs in the 23rd and replaces Bonilla, the guy Cuellar beat gets the 28th, Doggett gets a more compact district and loses a bunch of Hispanics, and the 21st becomes hyper GOP. Everybody is happy - except Bonilla.