1.   Another frequently mentioned change would have a nonpartisan panel draw legislative district lines.

2.   Blacks were also realizing that if the district lines were drawn well, minorities could win without cramming them all into a few districts.

3.   Beyond that, changing district lines can also powerfully affect which party controls the House.

4.   Born in Colorado, Livingston grew up in an old section of New Orleans, moving to the suburbs only when district lines were redrawn to exclude the city.

5.   A key use of the numbers is for states to redraw political district lines.

6.   A federal judge found that district lines had been gerrymandered to allow Lincoln Elementary to become all black.

7.   All of them are Republicans, an indication that the redrawing of district lines in this session is expected to benefit primarily the GOP.

8.   Breyer asked Bowers why district lines drawn by courts should not be judged by the same standard.

9.   But growing numbers of local officials are confronting the distorting effects of drawing town or county district lines in sparsely populated communities with big prisons.

10.   But in recent years, district lines have shifted with growing numbers of immigrants moving into the area.