They don't care about being the "good guys", they just want to stay in power, no matter the cost. Also, I don't know why anyone would be surprised or shocked by this, given all that we've seen from the GOP over the past decade. And, yeah, fixing (rigging) the system so that Democrats need to win the popular vote by a very unrealistic 15% just to win a bare majority of the state legislature will pretty much be the template for other GOP-controlled states. The Mississippi GOP has effectively turned themselves into a permanent majority party, and the Democrats into a permanent minority, no matter how many times the Democrats win the popular vote for state legislature. And no doubt they're quite proud of themselves for doing so. And if the GOP in NC ever wins back the governorship and a majority of the State Supreme Court, they'll do the exact same thing here, and nothing will be able to stop them.