Forget Texas.

And forget those Texas Democrats who, like illegal immigrants, fled to sanctuary cities like Chicago and New York to avoid a vote on gerrymandering the state’s congressional districts.

Some even trickled into sanctuary Boston to attend last week’s National Conference of State Legislatures, where, ironically, seeking common ground was a major theme.

Gov. Maura Healey warmly welcomed them as though they were illegal immigrants.

But if politicians really want to know about gerrymandering congressional districts to gain power, they all should study Massachusetts.

We invented it.

Or, I should say, Gov. Elbridge Gerry did. He was governor of Massachusetts when he signed a bill in 1812 that created a partisan state Senate district that looked like a mythological salamander (li

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