This article from the Indiana Business Journal explains why the Indiana legislature is so unresponsive to the public.

The involvement of a national party adviser in the state’s redistricting is one example of how Indiana Republicans are following the same strategy that resulted a decade ago in what have been called some of the nation’s most politically skewed state legislative and congressional districts.

The Indiana Citizen

…the study found Indiana’s maps were more biased toward Republicans than 95 percent of all U.S. districting plans…

The Indiana Citizen