US House Redistricting: West Virginia

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WV prohibits county splits.

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The new map will probably look more like this:

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Yeah I know Capito would be put in the same district as Rahall, but I highly doubt the Democrats who control the redistricting would care since Rahall would win. Besides Capito can just "move" anyway.

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Capito is moderate on the wrong issues for that district.

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I have to agree with the decision, the population deviancy on the current map is far too high to be sustained and it's entirely possible to get a more equal one without county splits.

Lewis's map above though is pretty weird with the third district which is clearly not a community of interest.

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has anyone made a GOP friendly map? I'm trying to do one. Hard to do it without partisan data...

You don't need partisan data if you're not splitting counties.