"But even in Texas, Republican exuberance has its limits. While the party in control clearly has the advantage, the messy, complicated and often self-serving nature of the redistricting process can dilute that leverage. Politicians naturally want to draw maps that benefit their party, but they also want to create politically safe districts for themselves. And those two goals don't always fit together.
That's a common situation in the 37 states that let state legislators draw their own districts, says Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program on Public Life at the University of North Carolina. 'Incumbents like to stay incumbents,' Guillory says. 'Frankly, that's going to be another limitation on what Republicans can do. They may want to draw more Republican districts, but there may be some Republican legislators who don't want to lose their voters.'"
Republicans face obstacles in redistricting
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