[writmeister]

The difficulty in getting rid of Martin Frost is two-fold. It is nearly impossible to avoid retrogression and not keep a minority-majority seat based in Tarrant County and southwestern Dallas County. The problem with keeping Hall over Frost is simply geographic - Ralph Hall lives in rural East Texas nearly fifty miles east of this district with no rational way to connect him to it. Even if they were to draw him into it, Hall would be defeated in the primary.

In explaining this, please don't confuse me with a Frost supporter as I absolutely detest the man and I live in fear with each map that I will end up in his district. As of the last map, I am six blocks outside his district -- but way too close for comfort.

[JohnnyZ]

It is nearly impossible to avoid retrogression and not keep a minority-majority seat based in Tarrant County and southwestern Dallas County.

That's fine, keep a Rat district, just get Frost OUT of it. It's my understanding that his house is barely in his district as it is, so we should be able to move him into an adjacent GOP district fairly easily. I suppose he could just move into the new district, but it could land him some minority opposition in the primary, which I would LOVE to see, since it would highlight Frost's usage of black voters on his personal voting plantation.

No need to change Hall's district. That's just rude.