there are four states who have nonpartisan commissions which draw the lines for congressional districts, and there are reforms under way in 14 other states, but of course, redistricting is going to come up again, because of the census this year, and this issue is far from dead. but some of the districts are redrawn, and redrawn all of the time for what is seen as a good reason and the courts have upheld this. yes, that is true. sometimes they are drawn in a certain way to give underrepresented groups a voice that they might not otherwise have. listen. for example, north carolina s 12th, the most litigated district in the country. the supreme court weighed in on this one and said, yes, it should look like this. that is basically to give african-americans a representative. here is cheatham. this is a community of interest of african-americans who can then elect a representative for themselves. so it zigs and zags and goes south and north and back and forth because it is capturi