A readable map of the Indiana’s 9 Congressional districts as drawn after the 2020 Census by Republicans who were then proud of their product.
A readable map of the Indiana’s 9 Congressional districts as drawn after the 2020 Census by Republicans who were then proud of their product.
Yes, it’s over….for now. But some diehard disrupters are determined to bring back redistricting in the current session of the Indiana General Assembly. Why? Because Donald and his puppy, our Governor, still hope to deny democracy in our Congressional delegation.

There is no valid, constitutional reason for mid-decade redistricting. The law, as it stands, until the Supreme Justices declare a change, requires use of the Decennial Census for allocating the seats in the House of Representatives to the various states. A change in the distribution of the population among the Congressional Districts (CDs) of a state, does not bring a new set of data into play.

Between the Census of 2020 and the Estimates of 2024, Indiana’s population grew by 138,747 or 2.0%. This was slower than the national rate of 2.6%, but no one seemed to be talking about national redistricting. Certainly not in slower growing Indiana which next might go from 9 to 8 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The major increases in population in Allen, Boone, Hamilton, and Hendricks counties, mean those populations will be underrepresented until 2030’s Census is complete and authenticated by the Bureau in 2031 or ’32.

Of course, the nation might get into a situation as we had early in the previous century, when redistricting among the states was ignored by Congress. Indiana might be among the smaller, slow-growing states desiring to hold back change.

But these are not times when the U.S. Constitution and the laws derived from that document are the rocks upon which we stand. Today the law, with judges happy to trash tradition and disregard decency, is only as stable as the sand upon a beach with strong waves.

It has been nice to think of Indiana’s Senators resisting the pernicious politics pushed by the President. Suddenly, the media recast those former scoundrels as liberty loving heroes resisting the irresponsible entreaties of an autocrat.

But these wizards have yet to come out from behind the curtains where they hide. Maybe they have been finding it more difficult to raise funds for their next set of campaigns. The national attention they received could well have been monetized by supporters who are finding the Grand Old Party is not so grand and the party is lacking in energy. As is often said, “Follow the Money.”
Morton J. Marcus is an economist formerly with the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. His column appears in Indiana newspapers, and his views can be followed his podcast.

© 2026 Morton J. Marcus

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