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Adam Griffin
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« on: February 24, 2014, 05:12:41 AM »

I wasn't sure if we were supposed to draw a district for ourselves in which we could get elected, or a district that more or less is just to represent the area. I did both. Cheesy

First, a district that could elect me:



There's no way to draw a Democratic district where I live without diving into Atlanta, so I followed I-75 from Whitfield County to Atlanta and incorporated various areas. I didn't want to ruin any potential VRA districts in a scenario like this, and was able to actually carve out two majority-white Democratic districts. I went for two because a) I knew they were there and b) I live in one precinct and vote in another, so I included one precinct in each of them.

The green district follows I-75 and mixes a respectable black population in Fulton and Cobb with Downtown/Midtown Atlanta whites that are overwhelmingly Democratic. There is a small but fairly consistent latino population scattered throughout the district's Cobb & Fulton portions, with the portion of Whitfield County being 40% latino.

The purple district takes in a lot of swing precincts on the northside of Atlanta and the eastern chunk of Gwinnett, which is a reliably Democratic multi-racial area that has the largest population of latinos as a % of anywhere in the metro; it rounds out the numbers with a similar number of black precincts in Dekalb.



Then, here are two districts designed to be more representative of the "region". The first one is designed to be more accommodating of local culture, while the second one is designed for compactness.





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