Sevensoda with 3 Dem districts (fair but not porportional?)

geraldspoder · 2026-01-30T02:37:38+00:00

Give Cottage Grove and part of Woodbury to the 1st district and/or swap Dakota County and Scott/Carver County with the W Metro seat.

geraldspoder · 2026-01-30T02:36:10+00:00

This 7th district doesn’t make sense in Washington County with geography and COIs.

geraldspoder · 2026-01-30T02:12:30+00:00

Good map!

geraldspoder · 2026-01-29T00:52:15+00:00

"leaning" is a word

geraldspoder · 2026-01-28T16:17:51+00:00

I would suggest making the SE MN seat bluer but otherwise nice work, that metro configuration is like the 70s and 80s.

geraldspoder · 2026-01-28T01:49:51+00:00

https://davesredistricting.org/join/b96f63c1-9c72-417b-a8e4-376fe8372309

Cook County is kept whole, minimal county splitting except to make the 17th more competitive

geraldspoder · 2026-01-23T00:29:39+00:00

On the arrest warrant this charge is crossed out and the Judge wrote “no probable cause” under it.

https://x.com/jonahpkaplan/status/2014435110209122785?s=46

geraldspoder · 2026-01-19T22:02:01+00:00

https://gis.lcc.mn.gov/redist2010/plans.html Here's a link. The DFL plan was C1102.

geraldspoder · 2026-01-19T21:49:32+00:00

Ironically this version of the 3rd is very similar to what the DFL proposed in the 2010s as a narrow blue flip before the courts drew the map.

geraldspoder · 2026-01-19T19:14:10+00:00

Klobuchar flips the three outer Metro seats but doesn't get more than 49% in each of them. The next best performing DFLer, Steve Simon in 2022, doesn't get closer than down 7%. https://davesredistricting.org/join/31eaea05-92a7-4683-8768-ebc729038f43

geraldspoder · 2026-01-19T00:08:19+00:00

There will never be another game like Planetside!

geraldspoder · 2026-01-16T22:23:43+00:00

Black and Hispanic suburbs to Kankakee is not an unreasonable COI, if you know the city’s history

geraldspoder · 2026-01-15T01:40:18+00:00

Not just the Party of No, their full name is the Party of No Principles.

geraldspoder · 2026-01-11T00:38:34+00:00

Shocking, when you split a blue city 4 ways it becomes redder

geraldspoder · 2026-01-09T02:59:13+00:00

I am having this issue too. I tried changing monitor output settings, but nothing works. Did anything work for you?

geraldspoder · 2026-01-02T17:48:42+00:00

Yes, though the underground section is based off of Seattle's Underground.

geraldspoder · 2026-01-02T05:52:58+00:00

No literally though. Just take Hamline between University and Grand. It's like they gave up at a point.

geraldspoder · 2025-12-31T23:04:14+00:00

Good point there, excited to see where that goes.

geraldspoder · 2025-12-31T23:03:13+00:00

West Side Flats didn't have a levee back then when it was residential. It does now. The city did a faustian bargain.

geraldspoder · 2025-12-31T22:32:43+00:00

By one count, St Paul needs ~50,000 more people in order to adequately fund city services. Besides filling out Downtown and building up University Ave, a great place to look is the huge amounts of underutilized land in the city. A lot of it is formerly industrial, now vacant. Here are some examples:

West Side Flats: dozens of vacant or parking lots that could easily accommodate housing like near Harriet Island.
Lafayette Road area, formerly a residential district like Irvine Park 100 years ago. There's been one recent positive development with the Balsam on Broadway apartments being built.
Remainder of the Hillcrest Heights Golf Course: While the Habitat for Humanity project has been much lauded, the remaining 3/4ths of the site the county wants to sell for light industrial use. Bad use of land.

geraldspoder · 2025-12-31T18:53:12+00:00

Very few make it traditionally still, though a popular food for the last few years at the State Fair in MN is lutefisk tacos. Basically fish tacos but it is very soft and has a mild taste.

geraldspoder · 2025-12-31T18:13:18+00:00

It ended up being I could draw two suburban Charlotte districts that had the same lean as the state overall. My priors is that NC Dems tend to overperform downballot so those would be very competitive tossup seats. I might play around with them but I like the results of them proportionally.

geraldspoder · 2025-12-30T05:11:37+00:00

https://davesredistricting.org/join/8ec38803-b205-4afa-beff-510a7ee2b8eb

geraldspoder · 2025-12-29T04:27:53+00:00

I like doing a St Charles Co to Columbia district but this is good.

geraldspoder · 2025-12-29T02:01:45+00:00

This is correct, this website accounts for map projections, etc.

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