[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.

[writmeister]

It's not completely rude. The other problem with the judges' 2001 plan was that it shortchanged the fast-growing suburbs to benefit slow-growing rural northern East Texas. The new map seeks to rectify this inequity by moving one of the northern East Texas seats into the DFW suburbs.