US: House Redistricting Massachusetts

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The key to the map will be splitting up Boston. Fortunately for the Democrats, Boston naturally splits fairly well.

Allston and Brighton go west
Back Bay and Beacon Hill go north (or they could go northeast or west if you're confident in the district containing Cambridge, which you probably should be)
The North End, Charlestown and East Boston go northeast*
South Boston and Dorchester go southeast (basically, all Irish areas)
Roxbury goes south (basically, all black areas)
Jamaica Plain goes southwest (mixed areas west of Roxbury)

*Alternatively, you could put the North End and Charlestown in with South Boston and Dorchester. East Boston would still go northeast.

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What're the racial numbers for MA-07? It's a pretty obvious racial gerrymander...

Not sure why they didn't try to work Fall River into the Cape District. It's definitely possible.

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Looks like a solid 9-0 map. And cleaner than the current to boot.

You could draw lines at random and still get a 9-0 map.

And, you could draw lines at random and get a 8-1 map.

Not really, unless the "random" lines were very lucky for the Republicans. 8-0-1 would be more likely, although 9-0 is still more likely on random lines.

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Bump for Frank retiring. Thoughts on whether MA-04 will be redrawn more reasonably?