CENTRAL VALLEY, Calif. (KFSN) -- With the Central Valley home to a third of the state's nine Republicans in Congress, experts say the region is a critical part of Democrats' plan to redistrict the state.

There are a handful of districts that are really the main pieces of this strategy," UC Merced Political Science Professor Nate Monroe said.

He said District 22 in the South Valley has been carefully redesigned under Proposition 50.

"This redistricting plan will shift some of the Republican precincts in Tulare and Kings County in that southern part of the district out of the seat and now pick up in its place some of the urban, more Democratic heavy precincts that are in the Fresno metro area," Monroe said.

On paper, Republicans would still hold an edge over Democrats based on the 2024

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