Although I’m adamantly against any type or form of gerrymandering. I take gerrymandering in stride. The Republicans did the same in 2010 to their great advantage. This time it seems to be the democrats turn. It’s going to happen regardless of what any of us think. Here’s the most extreme.

Illinois added 3 democratic seats, eliminate 2 GOP seats and 1 competitive seat
New Jersey added 3 democratic seats, eliminated 1 GOP seats and 2 competitive seats.
New York added 3 democratic 3 seats, eliminated 3 Republican seats and 1 competitive seat. New York lost a seat due to the 2020 census.
Oregon added 2 Democratic seats, eliminated 2 competitive seats.

Now one also needs to remember the GOP did the same as above for North Carolina and Ohio. Only those states supreme court threw out the grossly gerrymandered Republican maps making both states to redraw their maps with the supreme court of both having to approve the new maps. North Carolina’s original map eliminated 2 democratic districts and added 3 republican districts. The map North Carolina’s supreme finally approved added those 2 democratic districts back along with adding 1 competitive district. The competitive district is the new district added via the 2020 census. So, North Carolina is basically a status quo map from the old map. Ohio hasn’t yet submitted their revised map.

The two major parties took two different redistricting strategies. The Democrats wanted to add as many democratic leaning districts as possible. They did. But that also thinned their advantage in districts they currently hold. The GOP did the opposite, they strengthen the districts they now hold. They didn’t try to add new Republican leaning districts at the expense of weakening the districts they already have. You can tell by the number of competitive/switchable seats as to the difference in this strategy. 36 districts as of today with 6 states remaining to redraw their districts are in the competitive/switchable column. 24 are held by Democrats vs. 12 by Republicans. The Democrats have twice as many at risk districts than the Republicans have. So, we’ll see come November, which strategy worked out best.

It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.