Here's the honest answer. They won a bunch in the Tea Party election ...
of 2010, taking a bunch of normally blue seats. When the census results were published they then gerrymandered the living shit out of the maps putting as many Ds as possible into the same district and diluting their influence by dividing them into R-tending districts to increase the Rs' chances of retaining the legislatures. This happened most notably in NC and Wisconsin. Even though the vote in NC is roughly 50/50 and majority D in Wisconsin and Michigan, the Rs have large majorities there. In Wisconsin and NC they have supermajorities that can override governors' vetoes. Few, if any, legislatures regardless of control or lack of control want computers to draw any districts at any level because they'd create too many that are competitive. the GOP has abandoned small "d" democratic principles because they know they'd lose if they didn't.
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