I found a couple of sites that seem to come up with a better way to draw a district. We should have a consitutional amendment to make every state follow a computer program.

http://www.rangevoting.org/SplitLR.html

http://bolson.org/dist/

What got me thinking about this is the fact that their are far more Republican Congressional Disctricts than Democratic ones according to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Partisan_Voting_Index

According to Cook, the average district leans .2615 to the Democrats. So, it would seem that we should have more Democratic districts than Republicans. But there are 240 districts that are Republican, 192 that are Democratic and 3 that are neutral.

I think that means the Republicans did a good job of gerrymandering the districts after 2000.

I am not smart enough to know if California with a 8.06 average Democratic advantage is fair with a 33-19 advantage with a heavily Democratic seat being vacant.

Alabama has a 13.4 Republican advantage and is 6-1 Republican.

Of course, the Voting Rights Act forces a lot of the south to have a Black liberal in a seat and make the surrounding areas far whiter and conservative.

Colorado, which many people seem to think has very good districts is slightly Republican with a .1 advantage but has a 5-2 Democratic split.

As I said, I have no idea what any of this means except that gerrymandering STINKS