The Real Problem with Gerrymandering
Underneath the partisan takes, there lies something we all can (or at least should) agree on.
Jeremy Egerer | May 13, 2026
The point of a republic isn’t to enforce all the most brilliant ideas. It’s to not let one arrogant and selfish group bulldoze all the others. It’s the belief that if any group oversteps its boundaries, the pain itself (and the ensuing anger) should lead the other people to fix it.
In other words, the real question, today, in our republic, is whether stupid people should be allowed to cheat.
Gerrymandering is cheating. And our states have been gerrymandered badly for a long time — most usually to benefit Democrats. But when Texas accused Democrats of leaving the border open, thus flooding Texas with illegal aliens and giving representatives and electoral votes to New York and California, Texas redistricted to “balance things out” — one obvious cheat for another.
California responded by nearly shutting Republicans out. Then Virginia tried to shut Republicans out, and its state Supreme Court, with good reason, said the Democrats had broken constitutional law in the way they tried to do it. The court said you have to do the wrong thing in the right way — and the federal Supreme Court agreed. They said there’s no federal right to stop anyone from shutting out the other party in any state. Amazingly, according to the law, it’s illegal only to shut out a race.
This made things even hairier, because the entire South had already been gerrymandered to favor blacks. Now the whole South is trying to undo it, and whether right or wrong, the Democrats are crying foul — primarily because they’re losing. Democrats say they had to gerrymander in the South because the South had a history of shutting out black votes — which, if you look at a district map, is the same case Republicans could make about being entirely shut out of New England. (Currently, Republicans constitute about 40 percent of New Englanders, and they get zero elected representatives in Congress. Black people make up around 20 percent of the South — and before 2026, due to race-based gerrymandering, they picked about 15 seats, all of which went to Democrats).
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