Oh I hate the gerrymandering. My district is shaped like an L and includes our bit of the suburbs to the south tied in with more older suburbs/rural to the east and straight through the CITY to the north of it! (Dems, of course.)
While counties is a nice general idea, I think we could work out a rule where district boundaries can be described with geometry where we need to have sensible right angles, etc, with area covered being significant % greater in absolute # than the perimeter/border, etc. Some mathematical person can describe it. As it is now, what can happen is geometrically “ugly”.
My district is too .. except in my case, the repubs got it changed back from the mess the dems made and now I have a great repub representative.
But .. I still have Boxer and Feinstein .. which is just horrible.
Cynthia McKinney once had a district south of Atlanta that stretched damn near to Macon, in some parts only following a state highway or the banks of a river to connect with pockets of her “constituents” who had a racial connection in common with her.