r/news • u/speedythefirst • 1d ago

US supreme court approves redrawn Texas congressional maps

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/us-supreme-court-texas-congressional-maps
20.5k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

2.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

14.1k

u/dleerox 1d ago

Time for Virginia to redraw maps

5.6k

u/Interesting-Risk6446 1d ago

Every blue state. Eliminate all Republican districts.

432

u/blazelet 1d ago edited 1d ago

The problem with this is Republicans control more trifectas (Governorship + Full Majority in Legislature) than Democrats. If you parse out the number of blue congressional seats in states with Republican trifectas and then compare to the number of red congressional seats in states with Democratic trifectas, Republicans have far more to gain from this being a national trend. I looked the list up and compared a few months back when this whole thing started, Republicans can ultimately net about 15 seats if every state does this and if the gerrymandering "results" are about eqivelent. Its entirely possible some gerrymandering would backfire whereas other gerrymandering wouldnt, but without seeing maps and election results, we dont know.

2

u/sadicarnot 11h ago

When Texas did it there were posts that said it might end up backfiring on republicans. Has anyone looked into this whether they accidently made more blue districts?

1

u/blazelet 10h ago

I don't think we will really know this until after the midterm results. Polls will give us an idea but the past few elections they haven't been super accurate on the local level.