Gerrymandering has created many congressional districts that are very safe for the incumbent party. Maryland has 7dem Congressmen and 1R. The state is more Dem, but not 7to 1. Maryland’s state legislature is also gerrymandered yielding a veto-proof majority. If each state had districts that looked more like rectangles and less like computer-arranged spaghetti, there would be much better governance for our country. Many of the lefty extremists would never be elected.
Compact as much as possible the puzzle pieces exist in compact voting wards and districts. But then we get gerrymandering.
GOP lines get tossed in Pennsylvania and NC, but Maryland stands,
Seen Ohio congress lines such as those along the lake?