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Partisans in both parties believe that reapportionment of seats in the Indiana House of Representatives should be nonpartisan when their party doesn’t control the process; when they do control it, they feel free to draw lines with the objective of retaining control. Democrats controlled the reapportionment process following the 1990 and 2000 censuses. The result? Democrats controlled the House for 15 out of the ensuing 20 years. To the dismay of Representative Delaney and his fellow Democrats, their gerrymandering following the 2000 census didn’t anticipate a shift in voting patterns in Southern Indiana. As the time for reapportionment of the legislature came around following the 2010 census, historically Democratic seats from Southern Indiana had been won by Republicans, which put that party in charge of reapportionment in 2011. Following the excellent example set by Democrats when they reapportioned legislative districts in 1991 and 2001, Republicans drew district lines in their favor. The combination of redrawn district lines, the shift in voting patterns south of US 40, and the heavy concentration of Democratic voters in Lake, St. Joseph and Marion Counties has resulted in Republican control of the House since 2011. To expect them to now to give up control of redistricting is about as realistic as depending on Ed Delaney to disclose to readers the historic record of reapportionment when Democrats have been in control of the process.