Even if Republicans are driving gerrymandering today, Democrats certainly did it in the past. Redistricting in the middle of a decade, as opposed to waiting for the next U.S. census, isn’t totally unprecedented either. It turns out a precedent for today’s Texas Republicans was, well, Texas Republicans, who rigged maps in their favor in 2003 to win more U.S. House seats the next year. The Texas gerrymandering scheme combines two elements of the modern Republican Party that are eroding American