Red and blue states redistricting race

 MSNBC - Red and blue states are engaged in a redistricting arms race that risks creating, in effect, one-party red and blue states and further sharpening the country’s partisan divides. 

The latest state to jump on the redistricting bandwagon is Virginia, where state Democratic leaders are considering a plan to amend the state’s constitution to allow for redistricting that could potentially flip two to three House seats from red to blue.This move comes on the heels of Missouri Republicans revising their congressional map to target the district held by Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver. In North Carolina, already one of the most heavily gerrymandered states in the country, state Republicans passed legislation redrawing the state’s congressional map to potentially flip one House seat from blue to red. California voters appear poised to pass a referendum that would amend the state constitution to allow mid-decade redistricting. The move, made in direct response to Texas’ redistricting, could flip as many as five or six Republican-held seats to Democrats. More