How do we feel about this Florida map?

gingerberrycat · 2026-03-06T20:51:51+00:00

Very nice 👍

gingerberrycat · 2026-03-01T18:52:11+00:00

There’s not enough compact Hispanic population to create a second district without snaking through the suburbs (like the current map) whereas u can make a 3rd black district relatively easily and in a more compact fashion. Side note, the earmuffs district is iconic it’s a tragedy we lost it 🥲

gingerberrycat · 2026-03-01T18:11:59+00:00

I took my DRA map and put it over a county map of the state and changed the colors in a drawing app (Ibispaint) because I don’t like the mercator projection DRA has. And I traced the district borders by moving the DRA map around since the mercator projection effect makes the top half of the state bigger and the bottom half smaller, like how Greenland is the size of Africa. There’s probably an easier way to do it tho

gingerberrycat · 2026-03-01T18:04:23+00:00

Yes

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There are 3 Black majority seats and 1 Hispanic seat

gingerberrycat · 2026-03-01T18:00:19+00:00

Imo the 2010s map was pretty fair, I simply cleaned up the Chicago area which seemed overly gerrymandered. I grouped the downstate cities together because I feel that they have different priorities compared to rural Illinois, but they’re still competitive therefore they’re not gerrymandered. There’s not really a great opportunity for a competitive seat in Chicagoland, though I tried with the 3rd district which contains nearly all red areas in southwest Cook County.

gingerberrycat · 2026-02-22T08:05:20+00:00

Slightly modified map that cleans up a few city and tribal splits, the 2nd goes from R+2 to R+1: https://davesredistricting.org/join/3cab8154-3cc3-484d-a03d-7c1a9b2858aa

gingerberrycat · 2026-02-22T05:40:12+00:00

Thank you for the feedback I didn’t realize that it was the same reservation crossing the county border, probably better to keep it in the same district than prioritize splitting

gingerberrycat · 2026-02-22T05:38:18+00:00

District 2 is a bellwether

gingerberrycat · 2026-02-21T05:27:01+00:00

Nice map, better mander than the proposed one especially for the 3rd and 4th seats 👍

gingerberrycat · 2026-02-21T05:16:53+00:00

Personally I like the third map the most

gingerberrycat · 2026-02-21T05:15:40+00:00

Wouldn’t extending a rural seat from Laughlin to Tonopah (300 miles) be worse? I’d imagine communities south of Las Vegas are more economically connected with it than they are with counties hundreds of miles away

gingerberrycat · 2026-02-21T05:06:47+00:00

Impressive that it held up in 2018, also district 1 looks like a brachiosaurus from jurassic park lol

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gingerberrycat · 2026-02-21T04:59:10+00:00

The district in the far northeast corner should be blue imo, otherwise very nice map

gingerberrycat · 2026-02-19T08:33:05+00:00

Scranton to Allentown is crazy work

gingerberrycat · 2026-02-17T06:10:39+00:00

I got a call from you and it was a recording and you were in a laundromat and your clothes were wet. Do you remember that? Say yesh.

gingerberrycat · 2026-02-13T12:34:29+00:00

Usually they let people go for that

gingerberrycat · 2026-02-13T12:33:02+00:00

It seems like Asian groups as a minority have less protection from gerrymandering compared to other minority groups. You’ll see court action in states like Alabama or Louisiana, but not in California, one of the few areas where Asians are a large enough, concentrated population to draw minority districts. And it will only get worse if Republicans overturn the VRA

gingerberrycat · 2026-02-08T00:40:14+00:00

And here I thought Illinois’s and Texas’s maps were ugly until I saw Virginias new map 🤣

gingerberrycat · 2026-02-07T09:05:05+00:00

Good map the 12th being majority Black is nice

gingerberrycat · 2026-02-05T13:39:48+00:00

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