Editor, Gazette-Journal: Life on the Middle Peninsula teaches the value of being heard. In smaller communities, representation is not an abstract idea; it is the difference between local concerns being understood or overlooked. That is why changes to congressional districts matter so deeply here. Only a few years ago, Virginia voters approved a bipartisan redistricting process meant to keep politics at arm’s length from drawing those districts. Now the state is considering mid-decade changes, mostly as a response to partisan actions outside Virginia, and expected to produce a sharply uneven result from a closely divided electorate. That shift may be lawful. Even so, citizens must still ask whether it is right. The health of a democracy depends not only on what power permits, but on the restraint and fairness with which power is used. Under the proposed map now being discussed, the current 1st District would be folded into a district dominated by Northern Virginia population centers. If...