I’m on my third decade covering the Indiana General Assembly, so I’ve seen a lot. But a mid-cycle redistricting will be a new one.

I say “will” because it seems like an inevitability at this point. So, I researched the history of apportionment and redistricting in Indiana.

What I found is that the partisan fights about gerrymandering are as old as Indiana.

The 1825-26 apportionment “embroiled lawmakers in a bitter struggle even though members had not yet divided into political parties,” according to the Centennial History of the General Assembly, 1816 to 1978.

In 1832, residents of Cass County complained because they were placed in the 6th congressional district, composed of Marion and surrounding counties in the central part of the state, even though Cass was separated from the rest o

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