Right. And the commenter that you're replying to coincidentally left the next paragraph off of the WaPo article: > The paper referenced by Alito drew on data f

Right. And the commenter that you're replying to coincidentally left the next paragraph off of the WaPo article: > The paper referenced by Alito drew on data from the 1970s through the 1990s. At that point, the impact of gerrymandering was, in fact, relatively small. I have since extended the analysis with more recent data, and the results indicate that the effect of gerrymandering is now much larger. In fact, the size and scale of partisan gerrymandering has accelerated rapidly in just the last two redistricting cycles, as voters have become more committed to their parties and the tools for drawing gerrymanders have become more sophisticated.