From the Orlando Sentinel:  Republican lawmakers say voters who last year endorsed the anti-gerrymandering Fair Districts constitutional reforms may be in for a rude awakening when the first drafts of congressional and legislative maps are released in the coming weeks.

Something akin to: Meet the new maps, same as the old maps. To protect minority groups, the once-a-decade redrawing may not look that different from today —with jagged, oblong, or geometrically challenged districts zigzagging across the landscape, irrespective of municipal and county lines.

and more:  The NAACP maps show congressional, House and Senate districts that look a lot like today’s — except for two new congressional districts gained through reapportionment, one a Hispanic-access seat east and south of Orlando.  And though a few more congressional and legislative districts might vote Democratic, based on 2010 and 2006 election results, the maps stop well short of major reforms. Consider:

•The number of congressional districts with majority-black voting-age populations would remain at two: the South Florida districts now held by Democrats Alcee Hastings and Frederica Wilson.

•Democratic U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown’s district — the poster child for Fair Districts supporters — would still meander from Jacksonville down to Orange County. Its black voting-age population would drop from 49 percent to 48 percent.

•The three existing Hispanic-majority seats — all in South Florida — would be preserved. A new District 27, slicing from Orlando southwest to Winter Garden, would be 42 percent Hispanic.

•Despite substantial growth in the state’s Hispanic population, the maps would only increase Hispanic-majority seats in the Florida House from 13 to 14. Black-majority seats would rise from 10 to 12. The Senate map keeps two black-majority seats and three Hispanic ones.