I don’t understand this post, but Parker County is getting fucked. Weatherford should be the capital of a mostly rural district (the 17th) that contains all of Parker County and stretches includes west through Mineral Wells and South through some of the Big Country. The way it used to be.
Instead, about half of Parker county sits in the 12th, including Weatherford. Unfortunately, it the 12th contains western suburbs of Ft Worth, along with most of downtown and the Mid Cities, and thus the bulk of the population of the district. Weatherford was peeled out of the 17th to add Republican ballast to the partisan mix. Consequently and predictably, the representative from the 12th is a lifelong citizen of Ft Worth, with deep roots in Tarrant County, Weatherford and Parker county are a distant afterthought.
No, you haven’t. Instead you just keep repeating that they should match, not why. For example:
No you don’t have to, that’s not how our system works and the parties do not do that.
The goal is not and has never been to design districts to get representation that “aligns” to “views.” You think that’s the goal for some reason but refuse to answer why you think that.
The goal is to represent people in places, who have things in common (and these are called communities of interest). If you do that, it captures their views to the extent they are relevant on any given thing. You do that with districts designed around places with geography, economic and spatial interests in common.