Nice Guys...

finish last. Yes, it's true.

However, if you want to solve the problem of gerrymandering, changing states which would flip one or two seats isn't going to do the trick. Texas was significant because they were able to flip six seats with their gerrymandering plan. Illinois is not in that league. That's probably why Democratic lawmakers didn't see the need. That, and the fact that most district maps are an incumbency protection racket anyway.

The only way to solve redistricting once and for all is through statewide initiatives which use exactly the same format of nonpartisan geography. There should be no opportunity meddling, Democratic or Republican. In fact, legislatures should have nothing to do with the redistricting process, which allows them to pick their voters rather than allowing the voters to pick them. California's redistricting initiative failed last year because it had too many opportunities for mischief, and its constant voting and re-voting on districts meant there would be no continuity.

Using PLAN (the Progressive Legislative Action Network) to push nonpartisan redistricting reform bills, which look the same, which cut out the legislature from the process, in every single state, is the only way to do it. Those measures would enjoy probably 70% support in the electorate. Nobody likes gerrymandering. Fighting fire with fire is dumb, especially if your fire is 1/6 of their fire.