Gerrymandering is the redrawing of district lines for political election. The reason is in order for one party to gain advantage by changing the outcome by using the populations within those district lines. When they change these district lines it creates new boundaries for voters for particular areas which can keep a person in power or shift the power to a party that wishes to control that seat. If a map of district lines were to be looked at year by year they change dramatically and look very odd in terms of normal geography. My district is 138 according to the tribune website and it shows that is 2010 it had a seat taken by a republican party member. The interesting thing is that no race had a majority in this district in 2010, but in 2020 it had a white majority within the district. This could have been done for the republican party to keep a republican in power of this district. The district itself was expanded northbound and southbound to include I assume more white voters. A change in vote slanted towards President Trump was also witnessed during this gap. In 2010 it was a 47.1 percent in favor of Trump and in 2020 the percentage for Trump was 52. This could have a been a motivation in the redrawing of these district lines. Texas being a republican lead state can point these changes in districts and the strongest voter base being white males. This party would like to keep power just as any party would so they use gerrymandering as a tool to do so. From the 2020 election cycle a shift towards the democratic party could be seen so gerrymandering might be used even more to favor republicans in the future.

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