We’re supposed to respect “communities of interest” also, but it doesn’t really happen that way. For example, the City of Laurel, in PG County, is in the Fourth District (under the existing (2011) plan, not the new one.) The Anne Arundel part of Laurel is in the Third (proudly the most gerrymandered district in America), and North Laurel is in the Seventh. (It’s in Howard County.)
Functionally, those are one community — Greater Laurel, usually just considered Laurel. For all practical purposes, they’re the same community. People travel across those county lines all the time. They’re in three different districts.
The Sventh, BTW, is the district where Kimberly Klacik ran.
I honestly thought that Klacik was a good candidate and ran a good campaign (what I saw of it). She would have been a firecracker I think.