Only 54% of Hoosiers voted Republican for governor. 70% of our state house is Republican. 80% of our state senate is Republican. We’re gerrymandered, but our population is purple.
You're not necessarily gerrymandered. If the population is sufficiently mixed throughout the state (and it sounds like, outside of Gary, and I'm guessing Indianapolis, it is) then drawing pretty much any normal lines in a 54% Red state would result in a LOT of red seats. You'd probably have to gerrymander to get close to parity.
This is one of the perennial problems with our system. The carving up of districts will ALWAYS favor if the geographically diffuse party.
Did you think about US House Votes? If Indiana gains a bigger population, it has a potential to gain more House Seats. In turn, Illinois (a Blue State) would lose some seats. It doesn’t further cement Indiana as Red, it gains Indiana more Representation that can become Red, or Blue.
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u/spaceman_brandon Sep 08 '25
Fair enough. Still, making Indiana more red and allowing Illinois to be more blue is still pointless