dv said:

Lot of bleating from Repugnicans on the gerrymander but it is worthwhile remembering that the Dems have repeatedly put forward legislation to ban gerrymanders only to have it blocked by the Reps at each turn. They are ready to pass this legislation now if the other side agrees.

so if they’d been wiser the democrats should have tried to gerrymander right from the first blockage instead of leaving it until the terminal decline already started