Why have some decided the only way to improve the party

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116. More representatives in each state

would increase representation for marginalized groups. I live in a deep red state, but which often elects Democratic governors. It is much harder to gerrymander districts when there are more of them, and more people of the opposite party in each of them. The district I am in used to always put a Democrat into the state house. But it was gerrymandered, as the population increased. Now it has this weird, long tail, then spans out again to include an area much larger with mostly white, rural (and richer) constituents. The intent was clearly to split the urban/suburban, more racially and socially diverse population in which I live. Now we always lose to a Republican by a margin about the same as the difference between urban and rural voters added to the district.

Gerrymandering is basically just Jim Crow 2.0. And they keep getting away with it.