legislatures in both parties have taken to gerrymandering congressional districts. redistricting is simply the process of redrawing the lines. gerrymandering is redrawing the lines with the intent to benefit a particular party or group or individual. reporter: look at the map that texas republican legislature passed after the 2020 census. even the untrained political eye can see how jumbled and jagged the new house districts will be. when you look at the new texas map after redistricting, what does it look like to you? well, to me, the new map is it s incumbent protection. red seats got redder, and blue seats got bluer. reporter: professor david lubling of american university. when you have a lot of redistricting manipulation, it feels more and more like the representatives are choosing their constituents rather than vice versa. reporter: texas state republican j.c.jaton.
individual. reporter: look at the map that texas republican legislature passed after the 2020 census. even the untrained political eye can see how jumbled and jagged the new house districts will be. when you look at the new texas map after redistricting, what does it look like to you? well, to me, the new map is it s incumbent protection. the red seats got redder and blue seats got bluer. reporter: professor david lublin. it feels more and more like the representatives are choosing their constituents rather than vice versa. i here that said often but at the end of the day, the voting still occurs by the population that goes and votes. but if you decide that the population that s going to vote for you are like-minded people they re communities of interest. communities of interest isn t just code for keeping republicans with republicans and democrats with democrats?
will make partisanship in the house even worse. you have so many seats that are extreme in one direction or another. that means people are no longer forced to work together. reporter: more on that in a bit, but first a primer. the constitution says that every ten years after the census state political maps are redrawn based on population changes. in recent decades, state legislatures in both parties have taken to jegerrymandering congressional district. redistricting is simply the process of redrawing the lines. gerrymandering is redrawing the lines with the intent to benefit a particular party or group or individual. reporter: look at the map that texas republican legislature passed after the 2020 census. even the untrained political eye can see how jumbled and jagged the new house districts will be. when you look at the new texas map after redistricting,
another. that means people are no longer forced to work together. more on that in a bit. but first a primer. the constitution says every ten years after the census, state political maps are redrawn based on population changes. in recent decorate, state legislatures in both parties have taken to gerrymandering congressional districts. redistricting is simply the process of redrawing the lines. gerrymandering is redrawing the lines with the intent to benefit a particular party or group or individual. look at the map the texas republican legislature passed after the 2020 census. even the untrained political eye can see how jumbled and jagged the new house districts will be. when you look at the new texas map after redistricting, what does it look like to you? to me the new map is it s incumbent protection. the red seats got redder, and
he says new gerrymandered maps in his home state and beyond will make partisanship in the house even worse. you have so many seats that are extreme in one direction or another. that means people are no longer forced to work together. reporter: more on that in a bit, but first a primer. the constitution says that every ten years after the census, state political maps are redrawn based on population changes. in recent decades, state legislatures in both parties have taken to gerrymandering congressional district. redistricting is simply the process of redrawing the lines. gerrymandering is redrawing the lines with the intent to benefit a particular party or group or individual. reporter: look at the map that texas republican legislature passed after the 2020 census. even the untrained political eye can see how jumbled and jagged the new house districts will be. when you look at the new texas map after redistricting,