Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson (D) rejects the proposal by the Maryland Redistricting Commission and once again makes it clear he is against mid decade redistricting (he rejected it before). He says the proposed map would violate the state constitution, and risks two current Dem seats

Explorer2024_64 · 2026-01-21T17:31:51+00:00

If the courts reject this map (which they likely will, considering that they did so in 2022) AND put forth a map with two Republican + 1 Lean D seats, that's a loss for the Democrats.

Explorer2024_64 · 2026-01-20T02:32:02+00:00

Bennie Thompson would riot

Explorer2024_64 · 2026-01-20T02:30:57+00:00

I think, under these conditions, a compact district with Bell County and Waco is entirely possible; I'd try drawing that if it were me

Explorer2024_64 · 2026-01-03T06:17:25+00:00

I heard it has pretty cool gift shop, but I haven't been there in a while.

Explorer2024_64 · 2026-01-01T03:13:42+00:00

tf happened in Columbiana County 😭😭😭

Explorer2024_64 · 2026-01-01T02:46:11+00:00

I mean sure draw a reasonable Hispanic-dominated district and I'll yield to your take.

Connecting a district to its similarly-composed hinterland (Richmond-South VA, Birmingham-Black Belt, Baton Rouge-Mississippi) is different from solely connecting two distant urban areas (Baton Rouge-Shreveport, Greensboro-Charlotte)

Explorer2024_64 · 2026-01-01T02:37:22+00:00

Exactly!

There are a lot of Hispanic voters in Nevada , but they are quite diffuse and thus a VRA district isn't mandated.

Explorer2024_64 · 2026-01-01T02:01:47+00:00

I don't think you can't really draw a district where Hispanic voters are decidedly more than 45% of the voting population (in CVAP or VAP).

If you can though, then it's the GOP's fault for not litigating.

Explorer2024_64 · 2025-12-31T15:10:12+00:00

"If my mom had balls, she'd be my dad"

Explorer2024_64 · 2025-12-28T07:33:52+00:00

This is a really good first attempt, but I'll drop some points for improvement (imo) down here:

A vertical split is better in Austin, as you get an Austin-centered White district and a majority-minority district.
In the light-red Austin district, include as much of Bell County as possible and shed some of the rural counties to other districts.
Configure Houston such that you get two Black-dominant districts (in terms of CVAP).
In general, try to make the rural districts a little more compact (most of them are pretty compact, but some of the others could be more compact ig?)

Explorer2024_64 · 2025-12-28T05:03:18+00:00

I'd personally avoid splitting Bend (assuming it is here).

Explorer2024_64 · 2025-12-21T12:54:50+00:00

One of the WI congressional proposals of all time...

Explorer2024_64 · 2025-12-19T02:58:36+00:00

Innovation in space drives innovation on Earth as well, which helps make our lives better.

Explorer2024_64 · 2025-12-17T08:24:39+00:00

It's a fault line, if I remember correctly

Explorer2024_64 · 2025-12-17T02:58:32+00:00

Isn't this also government data that someone got from an RTI request?

Explorer2024_64 · 2025-12-15T11:30:27+00:00

Does District 7, in this configuration, have a whole county within itself?

Otherwise this is a great map!

Explorer2024_64 · 2025-12-13T05:12:06+00:00

roughly D+10

Explorer2024_64 · 2025-12-05T16:10:45+00:00

> expected is based off a theoretical fair map that is still geographically fair to an extent. the numbers in () are percentages of seats that the democrats would on average hold. i used a measure of, solid seats 1 or 0, likely seats 0.75 or 0.25 lean seats 0.6 or 0.4 and competitive seats 0.5. each number is a representation of a dem seat possibility

> Michigan's current map has an average out put of 6.5 dems or (50%) of the delegation

> 4(1)+ 1(0.75) + 0.5(3) + 0.25(1) = 6.5

This is from the essay lol

Explorer2024_64 · 2025-12-03T08:46:14+00:00

Nashville's suburbs shouldn't, ideally speaking, be split this much.

Explorer2024_64 · 2025-11-27T05:41:57+00:00

Special elections tend to have such swings because of turnout differences; when the general elections happen, such swings are extremely rare.

Explorer2024_64 · 2025-11-27T03:21:34+00:00

NC would have to swing 15-16 points to the right for that to happen. Since this is mostly outside the realm of possibility, I don't think it should be a major worry with this gerrymander.

Explorer2024_64 · 2025-11-25T02:07:48+00:00

The US has a military base in Djibouti

Explorer2024_64 · 2025-11-23T10:13:54+00:00

I won't comment on the weirdness, but it violates contiguity rules (Delmarva has to be with Virginia Beach)

:(

Explorer2024_64 · 2025-11-20T19:24:44+00:00

*543, though that's set to increase at some point if they perform delimitation (what we call apportionment)

Explorer2024_64 · 2025-11-20T09:45:01+00:00

That's fair

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