It seems like those would be mighty convoluted districts in order to achieve the goal of getting 2 Bush-majority Hispanic districts based out of El Paso County (I know Dubya lost El Paso County by over 20k in '04 -- I believe he only carried it once, when he ran for reelection as Governor in '98, but never as President). You and I, of course, both remain chagrined at the TX GOP's failure to create these necessary (for maintaining our majorities for the future) Hispanic/GOP districts.
Yes, it would be mighty convoluted districts. But drawing geographically compact districts in South Texas yields districts with far, far fewer voters than in the rest of Texas, given that so many Hispanics are non-citizens or otherwise non-voters. At some point, the one-man, one-vote standard will have to be rethought in order for districts not only to have relatively equal populations, but also relatively equal numbers of voters, since otherwise we face a new kind of "rotten borough" problem. Currently, votes in most Hispanic-majority districts are worth a lot more than in Anglo-majority districts because only like 120,000 people vote in 70%-Hispanic CDs while over 300,000 people vote in Anglo-majority CDs. If we drew 55%-Hispanic CDs that took in areas far from the border, then every CD would have over 200,000 voters.