People tend to hate Congress in general but love their own representative.

Yes, which refutes the claim I was responding to. Everyone thinks the problem isn't their representative, it's all the others. Which means they never hold their representative--the only one whom they have control over with their votes--accountable.

I'm willing to bet there is a study about the effects of letting people who are elected be involved in the process of re-drawing the districts they are elected from.

I'm in the UK and frankly the level of gerrymandering in the US is appalling. I mean it's your system, I hesitate to judge generally speaking, but OMG is your system of redistricting screwed up.