BTW, Mississippi's delegation in the US House is split 2-2 in Dems and GOP, and that's with the GOP-slanted gerrymandering.
I remember now... Gene Taylor (D) represents what is normally the most GOP part of MS... ironic, eh?
BTW if MS had a fair map how many seats would each party have?
Roger Wicker (R-MS1) and Gene Taylor (D-MS4) both represent very conservative districts, while Bennie Thompson (D-MS2) represnents the delta, a 2/3 black and very democratic district.
Without gerrymandering, highly republican Southern Madison County (my home) would have been put in District 2 (not affecting the outcome of that race), rather than 3. In that case, the imcubent vs incumbent race in Disctrict 3 would have been closer. Unfortunately it was not and Chip Pickering won without much effort.
If the State House plan (less gerrymandered) had been used rather than the State Senate plan, then we'd have 2 Dem, 1 GOP, and 1 very close--I don't know who would have won.
