{"id":1524,"date":"2026-05-25T11:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:36:16","slug":"how-this-age-of-extreme-gerrymandering-is-transforming-american-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=1524","title":{"rendered":"How this age of extreme gerrymandering is transforming American politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Politicians, no longer content to leave elections to chance, are working to choose their voters as often as every two years. <\/strong><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=1520\">Trump faces health questions ahead of another Walter Reed trip<\/a><\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1522\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/89a588351149275dac532749523701fe-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/89a588351149275dac532749523701fe-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/89a588351149275dac532749523701fe-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/89a588351149275dac532749523701fe-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/89a588351149275dac532749523701fe-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/89a588351149275dac532749523701fe-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>South Carolina Democratic Rep. Keishan Scott looks at a proposed congressional district map during a hearing this month at the State House in Columbia. (Jeffrey Collins\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The nationwide redistricting battle that erupted last year has evolved into a forever war.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians, no longer content to leave elections to chance, are working with increased precision to choose their voters, with plans to recalibrate as often as every two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis gerrymandering arms race is poised to turn into a nuclear war,\u201d said Dave Wasserman, senior elections analyst with Cook Political Report.<\/p>\n<p>Extreme gerrymanders could soon be even more extreme. California Democrats could eliminate every Republican in the state\u2019s House delegation, giving them a 52-0 map. Republicans could get rid of nearly every Democrat in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The potential result? A congressional map that looks more like a presidential map, with winner-take-all elections in many states. That could increase the chances for minority rule and further divide an already polarized country.<\/p>\n<p>As President Donald Trump insists Republicans are \u201centitled\u201d to more seats and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) declares \u201cmaximum warfare\u201d over maps, both parties are preparing to exploit opportunities to give themselves more seats. They\u2019re twisting districts into odd shapes that string together voters from faraway regions in a way that \u201cgets away from what representation is supposed to be about,\u201d said Sean Trende, senior election analyst for RealClearPolitics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole point of districts is saying that area matters and place matters, and we\u2019re just breaking that,\u201d Trende said.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1523\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e4db653c081c7e9ea19274fb231249c1-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e4db653c081c7e9ea19274fb231249c1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e4db653c081c7e9ea19274fb231249c1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e4db653c081c7e9ea19274fb231249c1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e4db653c081c7e9ea19274fb231249c1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e4db653c081c7e9ea19274fb231249c1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Kathy Scott-Lykes of Columbus, Georgia, takes part in a rally against redistricting efforts on May 16 outside the State House in Montgomery, Alabama. (Alyssa Pointer\/Reuters)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>None of this is normal. States long stuck to a tradition of redrawing their lines at the start of each decade after receiving census data showing how populations had shifted. Trump last year told Republican-led states to ditch that practice and carve up their states to their advantage ahead of the midterms. Democrats tried to match them but ran into obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Republicans won a new chance to draw seats in their favor at the last minute when the Supreme Court hollowed out a central provision of the Voting Rights Act.<\/p>\n<p>The decision \u201ccouldn\u2019t come at a worse time because the parties are so polarized and the parties are treating every change in election law as if it\u2019s existential,\u201d said Nathaniel Persily, a law professor at Stanford and an elections law expert.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans currently hold a tiny 217-212 House majority and face a difficult political environment. A handful of seats could make the difference in deciding who controls the House for the last two years of Trump\u2019s second term.<\/p>\n<p>This new approach to redistricting will allow partisans to scrutinize data after each election so they can fine-tune their gerrymanders to ensure they keep working for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll this just further alienates Americans from democracy and makes them feel even more that the process is rigged and manipulated,\u201d said New York University law professor Richard Pildes.<\/p>\n<p>The situation could lead to one party controlling Congress even if it loses the national popular vote by five percentage points or more. That would spark \u201clegitimacy problems,\u201d Trende said.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at where the gerrymandering fights stand and what\u2019s in store.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have given themselves more favorable lines in 15 districts since last year across seven states \u2014 Alabama, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re working on new maps in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/05\/14\/republicans-amid-pressure-trump-revive-effort-eliminate-clyburns-house-seat\/\" rel=\"\">Louisiana<\/a> and South Carolina that would be likely to give them one more in each state.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve taken extreme measures in some instances to ensure they can get new maps. In Alabama and Louisiana, they postponed primaries at the last moment, even though thousands of mail ballots had already been cast in Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have had much less success.<\/p>\n<p>They responded to Trump early on by persuading California voters to suspend the state\u2019s nonpartisan redistricting commission to draw five districts in Democrats\u2019 favor.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=1515\">Where Trump\u2019s $1.8 billion payout fund gets its money and how it could work<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They tried to do the same in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/05\/08\/virginia-court-invalidates-redistricting-measure\/\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/05\/08\/virginia-court-invalidates-redistricting-measure\/\">Virginia<\/a>. Voters agreed to the plan to give Democrats as many as four more seats, but the state Supreme Court nullified the map.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats gained an advantage in another district because of a Utah court ruling, bringing their national total to six.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans and Democrats are gearing up for new redistricting fights for 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) has called a special legislative session for June so that GOP lawmakers can draw a new map that will give them one or more additional House seats in the 2028 elections. In Colorado, a group aligned with Democrats is trying to get a measure on the ballot this fall that would give them three more House districts.<\/p>\n<p>And both sides are vying for more sway in statehouses across the country in hopes of adopting new maps that favor them or blocking their opponents from trying to give themselves more seats.<\/p>\n<p>Those campaigns will intensify as 2030 approaches because every state will be required to draw a new map after the next census.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have lots of places to go in their quest for more seats \u2014 starting in Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p><b>A fresh target<\/b>. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) promised in a recent radio interview to soon eliminate the seat of Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, the only Democratic House member from the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tenure of Congressman Bennie G. Thompson reigning terror on the 2nd Congressional District is over,\u201d Reeves said. \u201cIt\u2019s not a question of if. It\u2019s a question of when.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson, the only Black member of the House from Mississippi, said he would fight back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my state, African Americans are 38 percent of the population. We won\u2019t sit idly by and allow that population to go unrepresented,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><b>Redrawing what they redrew<\/b>. Republicans have already engaged in one round of redistricting in Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri and Texas but could pry more seats out of those states.<\/p>\n<p><b>Trying again<\/b>. Republican state lawmakers resisted redistricting in Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska and New Hampshire, and Trump\u2019s allies see those as good places to go after the midterms. In Indiana, Trump-backed primary challengers this month defeated five GOP state senators who opposed redistricting \u2014 a result that delivered a message to Republicans well beyond the Hoosier State.<\/p>\n<p><b>Reviving a fight<\/b>. A court ordered a new map for Utah last year that is expected to give Democrats one of the state\u2019s four districts this fall. Republicans are seeking ways to redraw the lines for 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats aren\u2019t sitting idle.<\/p>\n<p><b>California redux<\/b>. California voters last year suspended the state\u2019s nonpartisan redistricting commission until the 2030 census, allowing Democrats to draw five more seats in their favor. State lawmakers could use that authority to give themselves an advantage in four more, setting the stage for them to potentially capture all 52 of the state\u2019s congressional districts.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ballot measures<\/b>. A group aligned with Democrats is working to get measures on Colorado\u2019s ballot this fall that could give their party three more seats in the 2028 election. Democratic officials in New Jersey and New York are also eyeing ballot measures. Meanwhile, a group is trying to undo the Republicans\u2019 2025 gerrymander in Missouri with a ballot measure this fall.<\/p>\n<p><b>Trying again<\/b>. Democrats put off redrawing maps in Illinois and Maryland over the past year but will face a new round of pressure to take up the issue next year. In Virginia, they got voter approval for a new map, but their plan was blocked by the state Supreme Court. They can pursue the idea again for 2028.<\/p>\n<p><b>Finding new turf<\/b>. Democrats are trying to gain control of all levers of government in Minnesota and Wisconsin and win supermajorities in Oregon and Washington so they can draw new maps. And if Democrats don\u2019t win control of Wisconsin\u2019s legislature, groups aligned with them can continue litigation aimed at getting the state\u2019s liberal Supreme Court to approve a new map.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=1507\">Repeated violence puts spotlight on divisive political speech<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Isaac Arnsdorf contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians, no longer content to leave elections to chance, are working to choose their voters as often as every two years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How this age of extreme gerrymandering is transforming American politics - 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