Quote:You fundamentally misunderstand what the gerrymandering does.

 

It is gerrymandered to allow for a lot of republican districts around it.

 

When you pack democratic voters into a district you take them out of other district areas allowing a situation where instead of having a bunch of 53/47 type districts where one party narrowly wins based on how centrist and populist they are, you get one district with 90% democratic to 10% republican and all the districts immediately around it are 58% republican and 42% democratic, making all of those districts safe for republicans who never have to answer to democratic constituents in the local area.