US House Redistricting: South Carolina

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

General Assembly has set July 26th as the date they'll come back for a special session and try to finish up redistricting.

[jimrtex]

(One year Sanford was so piqued at the GA for always overriding his budget vetoes, he only did one line item veto, but it was of the entire budget. )

Did he use diagonal lines across whole pages, or go line by line?

[RBH]

in the spirit of compromise between Horry and Beaufort, a map that will make them happy and anger the department of Justice






SC1: 69.5W/22B, 61/38 McCain (was 57/42 McCain)
SC2: 69W/23B, 61/37 McCain (was 54/45 McCain)
SC3: 75.5W/18B, 66/32 McCain (was 64/35 McCain)
SC4: 70W/19B, 63/35.5 McCain (was 60/38 McCain)
SC5: 68W/24B, 59/39 McCain (was 53/46 McCain)
SC6: 30W/62B, 73/26 Obama (was 64/35 Obama)
SC7: 66W/24B, 57/42 McCain

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Trying to outdo the hideous visual of Eastern NC in the 2002-2010 map?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

You've angered the county that must not be named, for it is very Republican and very large, by splitting it.

[RBH]

another quasi-legal map.. putting the 7 largest counties in separate districts




SC1: 75W/14.5B, 66/32.5 McCain, 67/33 Rep
SC2: 39W/54B, 65/34 Obama, 65/35 Dem
SC3: 64W/27B, 53/45 McCain, 56.5/43.5 Rep
SC4: 71W/21B, 61/38 McCain, 63/37 Rep
SC5: 66W/27B, 59/40 McCain, 60/39 Rep
SC6: 65W/25B, 61/38 McCain, 62/38 Rep
SC7: 68W/26B, 62/37 McCain, 62/38 Rep

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Other than I'd split Anderson instead of Laurens and try to get at least one of Chesterfield, Cherokee, Fairfield, or Newberry counties be whole, and straighten out the Wilson/Clyburn district line that looks like a doable 1 MM district map.

[krazen1211]

General Assembly has set July 26th as the date they'll come back for a special session and try to finish up redistricting.

Senate, as I predicted, just fell in line behind the house plan that creates a 6-1 majority.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

General Assembly has set July 26th as the date they'll come back for a special session and try to finish up redistricting.

Senate, as I predicted, just fell in line behind the house plan that creates a 6-1 majority.

http://www.thestate.com/2011/07/26/1912392/senate-oks-pee-dee-horry-congressional.html

Not quite, as they did have to tweak the House plan to get it passed, but it does add a Horry-centric 7th district.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Here's link to the amended plan the House passed this morning:

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/php/amendments.php?KEY=22629

If anyone is interested in figuring out what they changed or drawing up the final version, I'll gladly let them have that pleasure.  I'm interested, but not enough to do the work myself.

[minionofmidas]

You have a map?

[krazen1211]

http://www.gtowntimes.com/local/House-and-Senate-reach-compromise-on-redistricting--Georgetown-in-7th-District2011-07-27T04-30-31

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

At least we won't have to worry about a useless third round of Rob Miller v. Joe Wilson, since Rob now lives in the 1st District.

[krazen1211]

http://www.rollcall.com/news/DOJ-Approves-New-South-Carolina-Map-209888-1.html

Precleared.

[Sol]

Based on this:

One thing I've been thinking is that competitiveness should be promoted in inelastic states, while not being considered in highly elastic states.

I've been working on South Carolina redistricting. It has a competitive 1st district.


Opinions? Thoughts?