I look forward to the end of Gerrymandering. California has voted to do so. But there is no false equivalence. All your numbers just re-inforce that Republicans are “better” or “more agressive” if you prefer.
And let’s not blame all of the Republican’s success on Gerrymandering, either. 33 states have Republican governors while 16 have Democrats (including PA and NC). No one has ever figured out how to Gerrymander a whole state. Republicans hold a slim majority of US Senators as well, including 3 out of 4 from NC and PA.
If NC is all about Gerrymandering then why are both their Senators Republican? I cannot argue that their House delegation and their state legislature are badly manipulated such that the legislature is 60% republican and the Congressional delegation is 12:1.
The urban concentration of Democratic voters is a natural gerrymander, if you will. While NC has slightly higher overall Democratic voter registration, Democrats are a minority in most of the counties in the state. They are a massive majority in the urban counties.
This is echoed around the country. Democrats concentrate heavily in Democratic districts, leaving a majority of districs to the Republicans - without meaningful Gerrymandering. There’s a meme going around that if the Democrats really want to get rid of Trump, some of them should move to Ohio from the coasts. 20,000 people leave San Francisco and set-up in Cincinnati, and the next election will look very, very different in Ohio, but not in California.
