Heavily gerrymandered here, too. We have one D rep in a district designed to corral Democratic voters, so one Dem always gets a seat, but everything else is diluted with rural evangelicals to the point a Democrat can't win any of the others. That being said, only one county judgeship or commission seat flipped red - our county commission is all female and all Dem, and all the local judges who were endorsed by MCDP won. Dayton generally has a Democratic mayor (last one was an independent/libertarian, who was a pot-smoking, earring-wearing stay at home dad). The last Republican mayor is my congressman, and the fact he was mayor lulls a lot of area Dems into thinking he's okay. He's not, he's as big a pig as the rest, but that's why nobody seems to be able to make any headway against him.
I am curious to see what happens after the next districting, with the new rules in place. I don't know if it requires drawing new districts, or if it just locks the current ones in place indefinitely. Hoping it will redraw and lock, but I don't know that. If it redraws, things may look different down the road. Kudos to whoever thought to put that on the ballot in the primaries, so the Republicans couldn't campaign on it.
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