There's a really good series of podcasts from fivethirtyeight.com about this: https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/the-gerrymandering-project/ https://fivethirtyeig

There's a really good series of podcasts from fivethirtyeight.com about this: https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/the-gerrymandering-project/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/the-gerrymandering-project/ The short version: Everyone agrees that gerrymandering is wrong and bad, but it's not 100% clear what the "right" result is. Is the right result proportional representation? Is the right result having more competitive districts? And what about minority influence? One thing they brought up which used to make the whole thing more complicated is that some civil rights laws also make requirements (or used to make requirements anyway) about the makeup of districts: namely, that if you could, you had to make a district which gave Blacks a significant influence in at least one district. But doing that requires "packing", which is one of the pair of techniques (along with "cracking") used in a partisan gerrymander. Lots of states have recently implemented a variety of responses to gerrymandering; in a few years it should be clear which approach(es) work best.