Gerrymandering has been with us since 1812, both sides have been using it even before the formation of the modern political party which Andrew Jackson established the first after his lost to J.Q. Adams. To expect either of our modern political parties to stop using something that gives them a political advantage is probably insane. Neither will. There’s been a few states which have tried to get rid of gerrymandering, but it has been done through voter initiative, not by anything a state legislature did. In fact, in those 5 or 6 states that have gone to a non-partisan independent commission to draw districts, the state legislatures of each opposed the voter initiative. If anything is to be done about gerrymandering, it will have to be done by the voter, not by any state legislature or politician no matter what they say to even condemning gerrymandering. Rhetoric is cheap, action is non-existent.
The initiative must also state that once the independent, non-partisan commission draws the lines, they are final. That the state legislature and or governor can’t reject them as New York state legislature just did 3 times to New York Independent commission.
