On Wednesday, Fox News reported that the redistricting plan that Virginia residents voted for was unconstitutional.

The article reports:

Republicans are cheering a circuit court victory in Virginia that showed Democrats’ redistricting efforts in Virginia are not quite over yet despite a referendum to accept a new map drawn by Democrats getting approved by voters Tuesday.

Virginia Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley ruled Wednesday, one day after the Democrat redistricting referendum passed, that all votes for or against the proposed redistricting amendment were unconstitutional, citing rules that impose certain requirements that the referendum did not meet. 

There are a handful of cases making their way through the Virginia court system challenging various aspects of the referendum, including the one Hurley ruled on Wednesday.

Basically, the legal problem is with the referendum–not with the redistricting. However, I have questions.

Below is a chart of how the New England states are divided into districts:

According to the Independent Voter Project, about 30 percent of Virginia’s voters are Republican and about 18 percent do not register with a political party. It seems to me that we have an awful lot of Republicans from various states that are not represented in Congress. Shouldn’t the Congressional delegation from a state bear some resemblance to the political balance of the state?