Expert: 'One or two' of Texas' three or four new seats in Congress will be Democratic seats

It appears as if Republican state lawmakers will have "unilateral authority" to draw 197 U.S. House districts next year, up from 98 a decade ago and only a few dozen after the 1990 census, he said. But even though Democrats in the 1990 cycle had nearly as free a hand in drawing lines, Storey said, that didn't prevent the 1994 GOP takeover of the U.S. House. And then there's the simple demographic facts on the ground: "Just because they have 197 where they have unilateral authority, there's still a lot of Democratic districts," he said, citing Texas, which is expected to gain three or four new congressional seats next year because of population growth.

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