Most Freedom districts are areas that tend to vote Republican at least for statewide districts, but are somewhat economically populist, and there's a few that vote Democratic but would prefer the Freedom Party to all the others Constitutional Union ones are basically the same, vote Republican but are socially moderate to liberal, a few that vote Democratic (perfect example is 40B), but would fit with the CU the best. MCA are solidly conservative (although this is going just by platform, I doubt a party ran by Naso, NixonNow and Phil would do well in any part of Minnesota). Farmer Labor and Independent Liberal are districts that usually vote Democratic, just going by what is the main reason they do, if it's social issues it goes Independent Liberal, if it's economic it goes Farmer Labor. Most of those northern FL districts would elect socially conservative FLers or Al-types, just like the type of Democrats they elect now. The Twin Cities by the way are 58 and up, I gave all of St. Paul to Farmer Labor since St. Paul is a rather blue collar city despite being fairly socially liberal, and north Minneapolis to FL as well since north Minneapolis is a very poor and crime ridden area, south Minneapolis went Independent Liberal since it's mostly "latte liberals", and opebo would actually be fairly popular there (well if you eliminate the NAMBLA sympathisies). I assume the areas with lots of minorities would vote FL as well, but it's safe to say that whoever was elected, FL or IL, would be ultra-leftist on both social and economic issues (just like who the Twin Cities currently elect).
WMS if you lived here you'd probably fit best in 4A or 22B, interesting because 22B is probably the closest thing in the state to New Mexico, it even has a relatively high number of Hispanics!
I'll see if I can get the Senate up tonight (shouldn't be too hard since Senate districts are just two House districts put together)
Para 1: Thanks for the explanation.
Para 2: I clicked on the map and those are two very competitive electoral districts...I like it.
And do you have a link to any description of the districts (I know those are pretty rare for state districts but figured I'd ask)? Since I of course don't know what 4A and 22B have in them...
Para 3: Your state handles districting a whole lot better than NM, which gerrymanders the f*** out of them and
doesn't combine House districts into Senate districts. Go
here and see for yourself. The State House is a Dem gerrymander and the State Senate is a bipartisan incumbent-protection gerrymander. Which one is worse I don't know...
