Can someone draw me a pic of a heavily gerrymandered, deep red district?

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17. It actually works the opposite from what you are thinking

It is the Democratic districts which are hugely Democratic while the GOP ones are more like 55/45 districts. NC was a perfect example of this. In NC we have 13 Congressional districts.

Democratic districts District 1 (majority minority) Dem incumbent 75% GOP challenger 23%. District 4 Dem incumbent 74% GOP challenger 25%. District 12 (majority minority) Dem incumbent 80% GOP challenger 20%

GOP districts District 2 GOP incumbent 56% Dem Challenger 41%, District 3 GOP incumbent 63% Dem challenger 37%, District 5 GOP incumbent 58 % Dem challenger 42%, District 6 GOP incumbent 61% Dem challenger 39%, District 8 GOP challenger 53% Dem incumbent 45%, District 9 open seat GOP 52% Dem 46%, District 10 GOP incumbent 57% Dem challenger 43%, District 11 open seat GOP 57% Dem 43%, District 13 open seat GOP 57% Dem 43%

Tie district (won by Democrat) District 7
District 50.1% to 49.9% this seat was drawn to be a GOP district (Romney won 57 to 43) but our very conservative Democratic candidate won by 654 votes out of 336,736 votes cast.

In the state as a whole, Democrats got more votes for Congress than did the GOP did but nearly lost 10 seats out of 13.

The Dem districts with the exception of district 7 are overwhelmingly Democratic (D 52, D 49, D 60)while the GOP districts range from a 6 point GOP edge to a 22 point GOP edge. So it is kind of the opposite of what your OP suggests.