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« Reply #50 on: February 27, 2012, 11:59:10 AM »



Writeup to come at some later time (gotta run) but I'd just like to note two things: There are parts of this map that I'm quite unhappy with, and might rework yet. Note particularly the pale pink district north of Columbia and the gerry at Sumter.
And not only are the four Richland County districts 18k undersized on balance (and I drew that county last!) ... three of them are barely Black majority. Grin
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« Reply #51 on: February 29, 2012, 02:51:56 PM »

dunh dunh dunh dunh... OHIO!



(Note: Contrast revved on this map only.)

Only Anglo percentage listed except where Black and/or Hispanic over 10%. Two figures with no explanation is always Anglo-Black. "?" behind McCain/Obama figure means the alternatively-provided average shows a different winner, but by a smaller margin. "!" if different winner, by a larger margin.

The numbering scheme begins with the Northeast, then works its way down the Ohio almost to Cincinnati (Springfield is included at this point due to county splits reasons), then north through Columbus all the way back to the Lake, then west to Toledo, then south again, ending at Cincinnati.

Ashtabula 101497, 91 (that is, Anglo percentage), 55.7% Obama



(Note: Some districts on the periphery of this map were renumbered after screenshot was taken.)

Outer Trumbull 101576, 94, 54.4% Obama
Warren 98779, 82-14, 65.2% Obama
Youngstown 102893, 58-31, 76.5% Obama (extends into Trumbull)
Boardman - Austintown 104265, 91, 56.8% Obama
S Mahoning - E Portage 98948, 97, 50.2% McCain!
W Portage 98239, 88, 57.7% Obama
Geauga 99243, 96, 56.8% McCain (extends into Portage)



E Lake 101680, 88, 50.1% McCain (Mentor is split)
W Lake 101499, 93, 49.8% Obama
Euclid 104361, 55-40, 71.0% Obama (extends into Lake. Extends into Cleveland.)
E Cuyahoga 100843, 80-12, 59.5% Obama (South Euclid is split)
Cleveland Heights 100548, 41-51, 86.1% Obama
SE Cuyahoga 95671, 41-52, 77.6% Obama
S Cuyahoga 96468, 91, 52.8% McCain? (Garfield Heights is split)
Cleveland SE 103768, 18-79, 92.9% Obama
Cleveland NE 102082, 85 Black (yes. under 10% Anglo. Basically anything with an Anglo presence in far NE Cleveland was excised and put into Euclid), 96.4% Obama
Cleveland NW 98537, 45-25 Hispanic-24 Black, 80.1% Obama (best Hispanic pack feasible, unless you want to abandon the Cuyahoga River boundary or draw a donut around the district - the areas right by the lake shore are devoid of Hispanics.)
Cleveland SW 98237, 71-13 Black-12 Hispanic, 65.9% Obama (includes Brooklyn and several tiny municipalities)
Lakewood - Rocky River - Fairview Park 101473, 86, 61.3% Obama (extends into Cleveland)
Parma - Parma Heights 102319, 91, 56.4% Obama
Strongsville - Brook Park 99004, 90, 52.7% Obama
Westlake - Olmsted - Bay Village 103632, 91, 50.6% Obama

Avon - North Ridgeville 101804, 91, 49.9% McCain!
Lorain 98819, 67-19 Hispanic-11 Black, 65.7% Obama
Elyria - Oberlin 100733, 82, 60.6% Obama

N Medina 101916, 82, 51.4% McCain!
S Medina - Copley 99231, 92, 53.3 McCain? (extends not just into Summit but into Akron, taking the Copley Junction neighborhood)
N Summit 97387, 86, 50.9% McCain?
Stow - Cuyahoga Falls 97025, 91, 53.3% Obama
Akron N & E 102226, 85, 59.1% Obama
Akron W & C 100485, 43-49, 84.5% Obama
Barberton - Akron S - Green 100402, 91, 53.7% Obama (extends into Stark)
Massillon 98826, 92, 52.7% Obama
North Canton 100838, 93, 55.8% McCain
Canton 99714, 74-19, 65.5% Obama
Alliance - S Stark 99390, 94, 50.4% McCain! (extends into Columbiana)
Columbiana 100100, 95, 52.3% McCain!

Jefferson - Lee 98545, 95, 49.4% McCain!
Madison - Belmont - Monroe 100906, 95, 50.2% Obama

Tuscarawas 102683, 96, 49.7% Obama (extends into Scioto)
E Licking - Scioto 96886, 94, 53.7% McCain
W Licking 96606, 92, 58.6% McCain

Muskingum 99303, 93, 52.6% McCain? (extends into Guernsey)
Washington - Noble - Guernsey 103281, 96, 55.8% McCain?

Athens - Meigs - Morgan 103581, 93, 57.8% Obama

Perry - Hocking - Vinton - Jackson 104560, 97, 51.8% McCain!
Lawrence - Gallia 100922, 95, 58.4% McCain? (extends into Jackson)

Scioto - E Adams 96473, 94, 53.2% McCain!
Brown - Highland - W Adams 100011, 97, 61.6% McCain

Ross - Pike 95737, 91, 51.2% McCain!
Pickaway - Fayette 95764, 94, 59.7% McCain (extends into Ross)

Springfield - W Clark 97100, 81-12, 51.7% Obama (see Dayton map below)
Champaign - E Clark - Rural Madison, 98223, 95, 59.2% McCain



Municipal and precincts boundaries in Ohio can be weird, and Columbus is among the worst offenders. Hence a number of unlisted "town splits" and noncontiguous precinct parts.

SW Franklin - London 104453, 78, 50.1% McCain? (in Franklin and Madison Counties)
Outer Fairfield 97928, 96, 59.2% McCain
Reynoldsburg - Pickerington 99392, 67-23, 51.2% Obama? (in Franklin and Fairfield Counties)
S Franklin 103466 83-11, 53.6% McCain
Columbus W 98132, 72-14, 56.6% Obama
Columbus C 95816, 79-11, 72.9% Obama
Columbus NW - Upper Arlington 103072, 82, 59.2% Obama
Columbus SE 95809, 22-68, 89.5% Obama
Columbus NE 102596, 33-55, 78.0% Obama
Columbus E - Whitehall 99766, 57-32, 63.8% Obama
Gahanna - NE Franklin 101000, 75-14, 51.7% Obama?
Columbus N - Worthington 102965, 78, 53.9% Obama
Dublin - Hilliard 103505, 81, 53.1% McCain
Westerville - Orange - Powell 99236, 85, 57.8% McCain (in Franklin and Delaware Counties)
Outer Delaware 103190, 91, 59.0% McCain

Union - Logan 98158, 93, 63.4% McCain
Hardin - Crawford - Wyandot 98457, 96, 58.2% McCain
Marion - Morrow 101328, 92, 55.9% McCain
Knox - Holmes 103287, 97, 61.9% McCain

E Wayne 95877, 94, 55.2% McCain
Ashland - W Wayne - N Mansfield 99675, 97, 60.3% McCain
Mansfield 96582, 84-12, 54.4% McCain

Seneca - Rural Huron 95768, 92, 51.0% McCain
Erie - Norwalk 97682, 86, 55.2% Obama

Sandusky - Ottawa 102372, 89, 51.7% Obama



S Wood 98367, 90, 50.8% Obama?
Toledo E - Oregon - N Wood, 100821, 79-11 Hispanic, 65.2% Obama
Toledo N 102590, 83, 64.4% Obama
Toledo C 10044, 33-56, 88.8% Obama
Toledo SW - Maumee - Waterville 104622, 84, 53.7% Obama
Sylvania - Fulton 102857, 89, 50.7% McCain?

Defiance - Williams - Henry 104894, 91, 54.7% McCain

Paulding - Van Wert - Mercer 101387, 96, 64.8% McCain (extends into Putnam and Allen Counties)
Hancock - Putnam 101004, 91, 63.5% McCain
Allen 102393, 82-12, 59.4% McCain

Shelby - Auglaize 95372, 96, 68.5% McCain
Miami 102506, 94, 63.3% McCain

Darke - Preble 99498, 97, 66.1% McCain (extends into Montgomery)



Sorry for the lack of contrast between Kettering etc and West Greene. Oh, and the Greene districts have to be numbered this way round because the other one borders a district of the same colour, the scheme repeating after No.55.

N Montgomery 101457, 82-11, 55.2% McCain
Dayton W 104775, 21-74, 87.9% Obama
Dayton E 100664, 83, 51.5% Obama (yeah, racial segregation of Dayton is incredible)
Kettering - Oakwood - Circleville 100713, 90, 57.1% McCain (Washington township is split, portion south of Circleville being included here)
Carrollton - Miamisburg 97931, 83, 55.3% McCain
Middletown - W Montgomery 99070, 89, 59.5% McCain (also extends into Warren)



Outer Butler 99894, 92, 62.2% McCain
Hamilton - Fairfield 104469, 80, 57.2% McCain
West Chester - Liberty 98567, 81, 65.3% McCain (two townships. Not cities. The right size taken together.)
N Warren 99267, 91, 69.3% McCain
S Warren 104900, 86, 66.1% McCain

E Greene - Clinton 99275, 88, 58.4% McCain (Sugarcreek township split along Shawnee Creek. This seemed preferrable to including Beavercreek township, as opposed to city, in the eastern constituency.)
W Greene 104338, 85, 60.7% McCain

E Clermont 101493, 96, 66.3% McCain
W Clermont 95870, 94, 64.8% McCain

NE Hamilton 104583, 84, 59.8% McCain
NC Hamilton 104179, 50-42, 62.9% Obama (I gave up the attempt to fashion a Black majority seat here. There's a stretch of lilywhite, Republican-leaning territory from Wyoming to Greenhills. Cinci's racial geography is hilariously complex in general, the very opposite of Dayton.)
W Hamilton 96372, 85-10, 64.8% McCain
Delhi - Bridgeton 96416, 94, 71.3% McCain
Cincinnati W 97153, 59-31, 66.3% Obama
Cincinnati C 96943, 42-51, 79.2% Obama (Norwood and St Bernard are very White... but so are the are the excised southeastern areas of the city. That line is a clearcut racial line, for once, both east and south of Norwood.)
Cincinnati N 103278, 36-58, 79.9% Obama
Cincinnati SE - E Hamilton 103450, 91, 56.5% McCain
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« Reply #52 on: February 29, 2012, 02:53:44 PM »

Weirdly pretty.
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« Reply #53 on: February 29, 2012, 04:06:44 PM »



Writeup to come at some later time (gotta run) but I'd just like to note two things: There are parts of this map that I'm quite unhappy with, and might rework yet. Note particularly the pale pink district north of Columbia and the gerry at Sumter.
And not only are the four Richland County districts 18k undersized on balance (and I drew that county last!) ... three of them are barely Black majority. Grin

Not going to bother redrawing, but need to get that writeup and those closeups into the world.

Would still be following the notation regarding the averages, except there's not much point: Colleton etc and Rock Hill are Republican on average figures (and by more than Obama won them), c'est tout. DRA presidential data used not to include early votes, skewing to the R. Have not checked whether that's been corrected.



Charleston S - Mount Pleasant 97403, 82-13, 54.2% McCain
Charleston N - North Charleston (uh, what?) 101361, 32-55-10 Hispanic, 75.7% Obama. Note the racial split of Charleston proper; the carve into St Andrews does take account of race stats but is really done for population balance, and the territory involved is (narrowly) plurality Anglo.
Saint Andrews - James Island 96936, 79-15, 53.3% McCain
Colleton - Rural Dorchester - West Charleston County 103977, 56-37, 50.9% Obama
Summerville 104410, 67-23, 58.5% McCain
Goose Creek - Ladson - Hanahan 101725, 62-22, 57.3% McCain. Had to carve into Black(ish) bits of Charleston County here. Not enough people in the eastern rural appendage.
Rural Berkeley 97687, 63-30, 52.4% McCain

W Beaufort 105537, 73-15 Hispanic, 59.2% McCain
E Beaufort - Jasper - Hampton 102563, 48-42, 57.4% Obama. Doing some kind of racial split is inevitable once you put Hilton Head and Sun City into the same constituency. Getting it to a Black plurality is impossible. I've tried. This does not represent the "Blackest" possible arrangement - that splits the Beaufort/Burton area along utterly weird lines and also splits Bluffton and still falls short. Since I gave that up anyways, maybe it would have been preferrable to split an extra county to avoid cutting into the Beaufort agglomeration, I dunno.

Orangeburg (with Denmark) 98410, 33-63, 69.4% Obama
Rural Aiken - Barnwell - Allendale - Bamberg (sans Denmark) 102956, 56-38, 50.6% McCain
Aiken - North Augusta 100261, 70-23, 63.8% McCain



SE Lexington - Calhoun 103458, 67-22, 60.8% McCain
W Lexington - Saluda 96780, 76-14, 69.6% McCain
NE Lexington 97203, 80-12, 69.7% McCain

Columbia N 96723, 43-51, 62.7% Obama
Columbia S 95862, 62-31, 60.2% Obama
SE Richland 95909, 37-49, 69.3% Obama
NE Richland, 96010, 39-51, 64.8% Obama

Chester - Fairfield - Newberry (and Greenwood County along the road to Newberry) 104994, 55-40, 51.1% Obama
Greenwood (bulk of) - Edgefield - McCormick (- Calhoun Falls) 99209, 59-35, 55.0% McCain
E Anderson County - Abbeville (bulk of) 104836, 83-13, 69.4% McCain
Anderson 104987, 73-21, 60.9% McCain

Oconee - Clemson 96576, 85, 65.5% McCain
Pickens 96921, 89, 75.1% McCain



N Greenville County 95819, 84, 72.6% McCain
"Wade Hampton - Taylors"? (or just E Greenville) 99942, 76, 66.4% McCain
Greenville NW 100949, 42-42-14, 63.2% Obama. Yeah, collecting all the minorities I could find. So? Barest of anglo pluralities.
Greenville SE - Simpsonville 98761, 76-14, 63.1% McCain
Laurens - S Greenville County 98697, 71-23, 59.9% McCain
S Spartanburg County (and protruding into Greenville) 101559, 81-12, 68.1% McCain
Spartanburg 102043, 51-36, 54.9% Obama (not that many minorities nearby to collect and accordingly amend the urban Spartanburg district you'd draw anyways)
N Spartanburg County 104299, 80-11, 68.5% McCain

Cherokee - Union - W York 103518, 74-21, 62.1% McCain
York C 104458, 82-11, 64.1% McCain (combines the northern and western suburbs of Rock Hill with the smaller town of York. How do you formally express that?)
Rock Hill 102400, 61-29, 49.6% Obama

Lancaster - N Kershaw 98255, 70-24, 57.5% McCain
Sumter W - Camden 100758, 64-29, 56.9% McCain
Sumter E - Clarendon - Lee 100983, 36-60, 65.7% Obama. Why the hell did I insist on getting those (in parts very heavily Black) western rural precincts into the latter district? I think it's just that I looked for areas to excise from an already drawn oversized district. Here's a much nicer-looking alternate version:



Sumter W - Camden 99618, 63-30, 55.2% McCain
Sumter E - Clarendon - Lee 102123, 37-58, 64.3% Obama

Chesterfield (excl. Cheraw) - Darlington 104335, 59-37, 50.9% McCain
Marlboro - Dillon - Marion (- Cheraw) 105137, 43-51, 60.1% Obama

Florence 101970, 54-41, 51.2% McCain
Williamsburg - S Florence - Rural Georgetown 95730, 44-52, 58.7% Obama. The north side of Georgetown city is entirely Black, and I apologize for not including it here (given what they were included in). It would have forced much uglier splits in Horry, and I guess you could argue for CoI on account of being coastal.
Georgetown - Garden City 97211, 81-12, 61.1% McCain
Myrtle Beach 103194, 78-11, 59.2% McCain
Conway - Rural Horry 102652, 73-20, 64.5% McCain
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« Reply #54 on: March 02, 2012, 07:09:48 AM »

Well, New York State is working... for now. Here's a first instalment: Nassau County.



The county is the right size for 15 districts, somewhat undersized. Brookhaven and Riverside are the right size for five districts, oversized, but that doesn't leave enough people to the west, so Brookhaven's western perimeter had to be breached. Huntington is the right size for two districts. Islip, Smithtown and Babylon are all very very wrong sizes. There is a coalition district with somewhat tortured lines in Babylon, and a very compact Hispanic district in Islip.

Hamptons 103269, 74 Anglo, 19 Hispanic, 56.7% Obama
Riverhead - Brookhaven NE 100716, 84 Anglo, 50.8% McCain
Brookhaven Setauket 100234, 79 Anglo, 55.1% Obama
Brookhaven Mastic 100461, 76 Anglo, 14 Hispanic, 51.2% Obama
Brookhaven Patchogue 98204, 70 Anglo, 19 Hispanic, 54.6% Obama
Brookhaven Centereach 95690, 74 Anglo, 13 Hispanic, 52.3% Obama
Ronkonkoma 97510, 77 Anglo, 13 Hispanic, 51.2% McCain (in Islip, Brookhaven and Smithtown, with Islip contributing somewhat over half the population)
Smithtown 101352, 90 Anglo, 56.5% McCain
Islip Brentwood 98452, 64 Hispanic, 16 Anglo, 15 Black, 77.8% Obama
Islip E 100048, 79 Anglo, 13 Hispanic, 51.0% McCain
Islip W 102008, 74 Anglo, 15 Hispanic, 49.9% McCain (extends into Babylon, with shape of salient inspired by shape of minority influence district there)
Babylon S 96149, 84 Anglo, 51.9% McCain
Babylon NW 95993, 39 Anglo, 31 Black, 25 Hispanic, 70.6% Obama
Huntington Station 102112, 67 Anglo, 17 Hispanic, 55.7% Obama
Huntington Northport 89 Anglo, 49.9% McCain

Democratic averages in all districts bar Smithtown (with McCain margins exceeding D average margins in Ronkonkoma and Babylon S).

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« Reply #55 on: March 02, 2012, 07:51:12 AM »

Treating populations individually, Oyster Bay should be 3 constituencies, Hempstead with Long Beach 8, North Hempstead with Glen Cove about 2.5 that could be combined with Queens for 25 somewhat undersized seats, Brooklyn could be 25, Staten needs to be paired but could be paired with Brooklyn for 30 smallish, Manhattan could be 16 smallish, the Bronx 14 smallish... see where this is headed (remembering that Suffolk seats are smallish too)?
That's right, one seat more than the area as a whole should be due. While the upstate could be legally drawn with 83 instead of 84 seats, I don't think this is either fair or going to work well.
New York without Queens is worth about 59.4 seats (and would be at 60 under the formula above), and Westchester is about 9.5, so I guess there'll be a Westchester-Bronx seat, and a Bronx-Manhattan seat. Sigh. Leaving the remaining 74 upstate seats still somewhat on the high end. And Long Island+Queens, Brooklyn, Staten still "stealing" a seat (81 seats for 8mio 37k).
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« Reply #56 on: March 02, 2012, 01:25:22 PM »



Oyster Bay - Glen Cove 102654, 76 Anglo, 12 Hispanic, 50.7% Obama (R average)
Oyster Bay Hicksville 98358, 76 Anglo, 13 Asian, 51.7% Obama
Oyster Bay Massapequa 99244, 87 Anglo, 58.5% McCain
Mineola - Westbury - Jericho 99020, 56 Anglo, 18 Hispanic, 14 Asian, 57.8% Obama (so yeah, I didn't do the Glen Cove - North Hempstead link, splitting Oyster Bay twice instead.)
Great Neck - Port Washington - Roslyn 100586, 77 Anglo, 11 Asian, 56.0% Obama

There is a piece of North Hempstead in one other constituency of course, but county splits beat township splits for the numbering scheme, I should think. So Hempstead goes first.

Hempstead Garden City 100738, 79 Anglo, 59.0% McCain
Hempstead Levittown 102379, 79 Anglo, 11 Hispanic, 50.9% McCain (D average)
Hempstead Wantagh 102396, 89 Anglo, 52.0% McCain (barely D average)
Hempstead Freeport 95936, 35 Black, 31 Hispanic, 29 Anglo, 74.5% Obama
Hempstead Oceanside - Long Beach 97681, 82 Anglo, 12 Hispanic, 52.9% Obama
Hempstead Lake - Uniondale 97154, 44 Black, 38 Hispanic, 14 Anglo, 85.4% Obama (trying hard to avoid calling this "Hempstead Hempstead" )
Hempstead SW 100613, 77 Anglo, 12 Hispanic, 54.4% McCain (just too many different places, none dominant. Maybe Hewlett could be used.)
Hempstead Elmont - Valley Stream 95966, 33 Black, 31 Anglo, 20 Hispanic, 13 Asian, 68.5% Obama

Glen Oaks - New Hyde Park 99045, 52 Anglo, 32 Asian, 57.6% Obama (this is the Queens-N Hempstead district. For all the remainder of this post, imagine the constituency name to begin in "Queens")

Bellaire - Cunningham Park 97014, 34 Asian, 26 Anglo, 16 Hispanic, 15 Black, 72.1% Obama
Bayside - Beechhurst 96905, 61 Anglo, 25 Asian, 11 Hispanic, 56.4% Obama
Flushing - College Point 99552, 56 Asian, 21 Hispanic, 18 Anglo, 66.1% Obama
Auburndale - East Flushing 103988, 58 Asian, 22 Anglo, 14 Hispanic, 64.1% Obama
Hill Crest - Briarwood - Fresh Meadows 98288, 41 Asian, 28 Anglo, 16 Hispanic, 11 Black, 71.0% Obama
Hillside - Hollis 98161, 65 Black, 16 Hispanic, 10 Asian, 96.4% Obama
Springfield Gardens - Cambria Heights 98564, 86 Black, 97.9% Obama
South Jamaica - Brookville 99582, 81 Black, 97.5% Obama
Ozone Park - Howard Beach - Breezy Point 98352, 49 Anglo, 24 Hispanic, 13 Asian, 53.0% Obama
Rockaway 95192, 47 Black, 24 Hispanic, 24 Anglo, 79.6% Obama (as small as possible to get the above district as near the bridge as possible...)
Richmond Hill 95776, 26 Black, 26 Asian, 22 Hispanic, 20 Other, 86.6% Obama (the map above calls this Morris Park, but wikipedia has only one Morris Park and that in the Bronx, and the Richmond Hill article seems to be talking broadly of this area. The Others are mostly Caribbean East Indians, who obviously don't know what the hell to put. Also many Arabs. The Asians are also mostly South Asian.)
Woodhaven - North Jamaica 99074, 52 Hispanic, 18 Asian, 12 Anglo, 79.4% Obama
Kew Gardens 102240, 51 Anglo, 20 Asian, 18 Hispanic, 66.2% Obama
Parkside - Rego Park 104789, 57 Anglo, 23 Asian, 15 Hispanic, 61.0% Obama
Middle Village 98896, 65 Anglo, 25 Hispanic, 53.5% Obama
Linden Hill - Haberman 95858, 50 Hispanic, 31 Anglo, 16 Asian, 76.6% Obama
Woodside - Elmhurst 102250, 52 Asian, 29 Hispanic, 15 Anglo, 70.4% Obama
Jackson Heights 96127, 57 Hispanic, 25 Asian, 14 Anglo, 77.7% Obama (population density hereabouts is amazing)
Corona 98922, 70 Hispanic, 14 Asian, 86.5% Obama
North Beach 97907, 65 Hispanic, 14 Asian, 84.9% Obama
Steinway - Astoria 102059, 61 Anglo, 22 Hispanic, 13 Asian, 77.6% Obama
Long Island City 98925, 34 Anglo, 32 Hispanic, 18 Asian, 11 Black, 84.0% Obama

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« Reply #57 on: March 02, 2012, 02:46:46 PM »

You should call the Hempstead SW district "Five Towns".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Towns
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« Reply #58 on: March 02, 2012, 02:54:15 PM »

Does have a ring to it. Smiley
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« Reply #59 on: March 03, 2012, 07:13:14 AM »

Brooklyn & Staten



Greenpoint & S Williamsburg 99673, 81 Anglo, 12 Hispanic, 69.0% Obama
Williamsburg 99671, 49 Hispanic, 28 Anglo, 16 Black, 91.8% Obama (didn't want to split the Hasidic portion, preferring to carve up the hipsters instead. Hence the shape.)
Bushwick 97044, 67 Hispanic, 19 Black, 93.2% Obama
Cypress Hill - Broadway Junction 97844, 50 Hispanic, 34 Black, 93.5% Obama
East New York 99710, 71 Black, 22 Hispanic, 95.1% Obama
Canarsie 95044, 82 Black, 94.8% Obama
Flatlands - Bergen Beach 104331, 56 Black, 29 Anglo (in Bergen Beach), 79.1% Obama
Midwood Park 102380, 46 Black, 23 Anglo, 15 Hispanic, 13 Asian, 87.3% Obama
East Flatbush 100716, 90 Black, 98.2% Obama
Flatbush 99465, 71 Black, 17 Hispanic, 97.4% Obama
Crown Heights 99678, 66 Black, 20 Anglo, 91.0% Obama
Brownsville - Ocean Hill 100738, 79 Black, 17 Hispanic, 98.5% Obama
Bedford-Stuyvesant 96230, 78 Black, 14 Hispanic, 98.7% Obama
Fort Greene - Clinton Hill 95276, 41 Black, 30 Anglo, 21 Hispanic, 96.4% Obama
Downtown Brooklyn 95506, 61 Anglo, 16 Hispanic, 12 Black, 90.4% Obama
Park Slope 101402, 62 Anglo, 13 Hispanic, 11 Black, 90.0% Obama
Sunset Park N - Red Hook 95490, 58 Hispanic, 20 Anglo, 14 Asian, 85.2% Obama
Sunset Park S - 65th Street 97090, 55 Asian, 22 Anglo, 20 Hispanic, 63.4% Obama (the possibility of creating this district influenced quite a bit of the map. What the hell do you call the eastern part of the district between Boro Park and Dyker Heights, anyways?)
Boro Park 96001, 85 Anglo, 81.4% McCain
Midwood 98722, 80 Anglo, 67.7% McCain
Sheepshead Bay - Marine Park 100943, 67 Anglo, 18 Asian, 50.5% McCain (strongly Democratic average)
Coney Island - Brighton Beach 99227, 61 Anglo, 15 Hispanic, 11 Asian, 11 Black, 53.6% Obama
Gravesend 103427, 62 Anglo, 21 Asian, 13 Hispanic, 55.6% McCain (average almost as Democratic as presidential result is Republican. McCain margin relying heavily on northern end of the constituency, where Boro Park/Midwood was too large for two. Close without that area.)
Bensonhurst 102466, 51 Anglo, 34 Asian, 13 Hispanic, 49.9% Obama
Bay Ridge - Dyker Heights 100220, 67 Anglo, 16 Asian, 14 Hispanic, 54.8% Obama
East Staten Island - Narrows Bridge 98900, 66 Anglo, 15 Hispanic, 14 Asian, 53.7% McCain
North Staten Island 100699, 36 Hispanic, 34 Black, 21 Anglo, 81.9% Obama
Staten Expressway 100376, 66 Anglo, 16 Hispanic, 10 Asian, 51.8% McCain ("North Staten Island South" or "Inland North Staten Island" just don't sound right. Staten neighborhoods are far too small to name districts after them. Somewhat narrow Democratic average.)
SE Staten Island 96730, 82 Anglo, 62.2% McCain
SW Staten Island 98412, 85 Anglo, 65.7% McCain
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« Reply #60 on: March 03, 2012, 12:42:41 PM »





And because the latter map is very small...



Still too small, even with right click? I've got it saved in drf, I can do requests.

Chinatown - Financial District 100874, 48 Asian, 38 Anglo, 76.6% Obama
Alphabet City - Two Bridges 101533, 36 Anglo, 34 Hispanic, 19 Asian, 87.8% Obama (too many hipster "East Village" bits for Hispanic plurality)
Greenwich Village 102698, 78 Anglo, 88.3% Obama
Gramercy - Madison Square 104401, 70 Anglo, 15 Asian, 81.9% Obama
Midtown - Roosevelt Island 103478, 71 Anglo, 15 Asian, 74.9% Obama
Hells Kitchen - Chelsea 101521, 61 Anglo, 17 Hispanic, 13 Asian, 87.0% Obama
Upper West Side South 100235, 74 Anglo, 11 Asian, 82.6% Obama (wth else do you call these?)
Upper West Side North 102836, 69 Anglo, 15 Hispanic, 88.2% Obama
Upper East Side South (Lennox Hill) 103228, 83 Anglo, 73.3% Obama
Upper East Side North (Yorkville) 101889, 79 Anglo, 77.2% Obama
East Harlem 97076, 55 Hispanic, 27 Black (remember this is non-Hispanic Black. Same goes for the Bronx, of course, of course), 10 Anglo, 93.9% Obama
Harlem S - Manhattan Valley 101142, 52 Black, 27 Hispanic, 14 Anglo, 96.6% Obama (had to put the park somewhere, and a majority of its 27 census residents are Black)
Harlem N - Hamilton Heights 103620, 51 Black, 38 Hispanic, 97.6% Obama
Morningside Heights - Riverbank 99071, 38 Hispanic, 37 Anglo, 14 Black, 90.2% Obama
Washington Heights 100568, 79 Hispanic, 92.5% Obama

Inwood - Jerome Park 102598, 70 Hispanic, 16 Anglo, 10 Black, 88.9% Obama

Bedford Park - Norwood 103176, 61 Hispanic, 19 Black, 10 Anglo, 90.1% Obama (a fifth of that Anglo population lives on Fordham Uni campus)
Fordham 97930, 70 Hispanic, 22 Black, 93.8% Obama
Tremont - Morris Heights 98152, 66 Hispanic, 30 Black, 95.7% Obama (how you find your way around the Bronx when every other neighborhood and its kid sister is called "Morris" is beyond me)
Crotona Park 102202, 64 Hispanic, 30 Black, 94.0% Obama
Morrisania 100213, 55 Hispanic, 41 Black, 96.6% Obama
Melrose - High Bridge 97488, 67 Hispanic, 29 Black, 95.7% Obama
Port Morris - Longwood 96323, 74 Hispanic, 23 Black, 93.7% Obama
Hunts Point - Soundview 95593, 59 Hispanic, 35 Black, 94.0% Obama
Park Stratton - Westchester 96248, 53 Hispanic, 27 Black, 12 Asian, 90.7% Obama
Bronxdale 103720, 59 Hispanic, 22 Black, 13 Anglo, 88.1% Obama
Throgs Neck - Morris Park - City Island 101129, 52 Anglo, 34 Hispanic, 57.2% Obama
Baychester 97836, 66 Black, 24 Hispanic, 94.0% Obama
Williamsbridge 100559, 62 Black, 27 Hispanic, 94.0% Obama

Riverdale - Yonkers SE 100594, 68 Anglo, 18 Hispanic, 62.5% Obama.
Yonkers is the right size for two districts, actually. But that would have forced a number of odd township splits elsewhere - at least one more than the three I got, if I didn't overlook anything, and besides the White areas around Riverdale in the western North Bronx are just the right size to be combined with something in Westchester, and Yonkers is the only place they border. The Black parts of Mount Vernon would have been the right size to combine with somewhere in the Bronx (all of Mount Vernon would have been too big, but there's still some white areas at the northern end), except the heavily Black parts in the North Bronx are the right size for two districts already.

Yonkers W 97486, 51 Hispanic, 24 Black, 18 Anglo, 80.6% Obama
Yonkers NE - Greensburgh S 96071, 69 Anglo, 13 Hispanic, 11 Asian, 59.9% Obama
White Plains - Greensburgh N 100788, 49 Anglo, 26 Hispanic, 16 Black, 70.1% Obama
Mount Vernon - (Pelham -) New Rochelle W 103480, 47 Black, 26 Anglo, 21 Hispanic, 82.0% Obama.
Hispanics mostly in the New Rochelle portion, but that was preferrable to uniting Mount Vernon with lily-white Eastchester for a barely Black plurality district. Especially since New Rochelle, Pelham and Scarsdale are barely out of tolerance together anyways, so it didn't safe a town split.
New Rochelle - Eastchester - Scarsdale 102799, 70 Anglo, 13 Hispanic, 59.2% Obama
Mamaroneck - Rye - Harrison 104600, 66 Anglo, 25 Hispanic, 59.5% Obama
too many towns to list them all in the constituency name from here on...
Mount Kisco 96782, 81 Anglo, 11 Hispanic, 55.7% Obama
Ossining 98767, 66 Anglo, 20 Hispanic, 61.2% Obama
Peekskill 101256, 69 Anglo, 17 Hispanic, 57.4% Obama
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« Reply #61 on: March 07, 2012, 12:45:45 PM »

And New York is done. Cheesy



121 Rockland SE 103823, 75 Anglo, 51.5% Obama
122 Rockland C 103782, 39 Anglo, 29 Hispanic, 23 Black, 65.2% Obama
123 Rockland NW 104043, 82 Anglo, 56.3% McCain
One more township split than strictly necessary (three instead of two), in order to create that coalition district and also keep the Hasidim broadly united.

124 Putnam 99710, 83 Anglo, 12 Hispanic, 53.2% McCain

125 SW Dutchess 103766, 74 Anglo, 11 Hispanic, 50.5% McCain
126 Poughkeepsie 96387, 64 Anglo, 16 Black, 14 Hispanic, 60.3% Obama
127 N (&E) Dutchess 97335, 87 Anglo, 53.2% Obama

One township barely split around Myers Corner. Oh yeah, from here on I won't mention the word "Anglo".

128 S Orange 102940, 82, 10 Hispanic, 53.4% McCain
129 Middletown - Port Jervis 104828, 61, 22 Hispanic, 12 Black, 55.2% Obama
130 Newburgh 102078, 56, 25 Hispanic, 14 Black, 57.4% Obama
131 C Orange - SW Ulster 95864, 77, 13 Hispanic, 49.4% McCain

One township split between the latter two, and it's technically avoidable but the map gets seriously weird. Time for a state view!



132 E Ulster 96368, 79, 61.5% Obama
133 Greene - N Ulster 102114, 89, 55.0% Obama

134 Sullivan - S Delaware 97757, 78, 12 Hispanic, 52.0% Obama
135 Schoharie - S Otsego - N Delaware 101626, 93, 49.7% McCain
136 Montgomery - N Otsego - S Herkimer 97767, 90, 52.0% McCain
137 Fulton - Hamilton - N Herkimer 98490, 95, 54.9% McCain

Split of Herkimer is really not particularly nice (but those of Delaware and Otsego are, I think!) but the alternative of splitting Fulton instead came out really, really unattractive. Though I wonder now if I thought of all the options, I drew that part several days ago.



138 Albany City 104795, 56, 28 Black, 78.8% Obama
139 Albany NE 104387, 85, 56.2% Obama
140 Albany SW 94985, 89, 58.9% Obama

Using the full tolerance in order to split only one township (a few precincts just north of Albany in the City constituency).

141 Troy - Greenbush 100010, 80, 57.1% Obama
142 S Rensselaer - Columbia 98522, 91, 54.0% Obama
143 S Saratoga - N Rensselaer 95852, 92, 50.1% Obama (crossing the Hudson here saved a county split. Crossing the eastern boundary of Saratoga at all also saved a split of Glens Falls proper, though not splitting the conurbation there would have required that extra county split after all.)
144 N Saratoga 96954, 94, 52.3% Obama
145 Ballston - W Schenectady 103426, 95, 50.6% McCain. Rotterdam is split.
146 Schenectady City 102095, 68, 13 Black, 61.0% Obama

147 Washington - Glens Falls 101622, 94, 52.0% Obama. Had to split one precinct off the surrounding township (to the northeast.)
148 Clinton - Adirondacks - Warren 104767, 88, 53.8% Obama
149 Franklin - E Essex 102990, 92, 59.3% Obama
150 Saint Lawrence (part) 104585, 93, 57.8% Obama

Right, so what I drew here requires an explanation. I could have split Franklin instead but it would have run right through the Plattsburgh area. I could have split Clinton instead but Malone would have gone with the southern district. The Clinton-Essex County Line also splits Saranac Lake, and there actually is a proposal to create a new county around that town. Population constraints caused a few suboptimal town allocations.

151 Jefferson (part) 98030, 85, 51.6% McCain
152 Lewis - parts of three more (heh. whatever you want to call the district) 97023, 96, 55.5% McCain
153 Oswego (part) 103015, 95, 51.0% Obama
154 Rome 96894, 90, 56.0% McCain
155 Utica 104718, 77, 52.8% Obama. See also Syracuse map below.

156 Cortland - Chenango 99813, 95, 51.4% Obama

157 Binghampton - Broome NE 100451, 86, 53.4% Obama
158 Broome SW 100149, 87, 52.9% Obama
Odd to remove the main town from a conurbation, but I blame said conurbation's peculiar shape. It was not done because it creates two lean D seats, although that is the result.

159 Tompkins 101564, 80, 70.1% Obama



160 Cayuga (part) - SW Onondaga 103717, 92, 52.9% Obama
161 Madison - SE Onondaga 104686, 92, 50.0% Obama. Onondaga township is split between these two, and really belongs with neither (being much the most Syracusey part of the two constituencies), but the populations worked out too well to the north to forego this.
162 Syracuse E 103893, 82, 61.9% Obama. With DeWitt and Manlius.
163 Syracuse W 99485, 44, 35 Black, 80.4% Obama. Wholly within the city. As you can probably guess, that eastern appendage is full of Black people.
164 NE Onondaga 100295, 90, 54.8% Obama
165 NW Onondaga 99482, 93, 53.0% Obama. Clay township split.
166 Wayne - N Cayuga 102497, 92, 54.1% McCain

167 Seneca - Schuyler - N Chemung 96478, 93, 51.3% McCain
168 Tioga - S Chemung 96905, 89, 50.7% McCain. Elmira is just included in the southern district. Poetic justice for Broome? Chemung, unlike Tompkins, is too small to stand alone, though not by much, and Tioga must go somewhere.

169 Steuben 98990, 94, 57.7% McCain

170 Livingston - Yates - S Ontario 99858, 94, 52.8% McCain
171 Ontario (part) 98814, 91, 49.7% Obama

172 Genesee - Wyoming 102234, 91, 59.9% McCain



173 SW Monroe (Gates, Chili etc) 98111, 85, 49.9% McCain
174 SE Monroe (Fairport, East Rochester etc) 95084, 91, 51.9% Obama
175 Brighton - Penfield - Henrietta E 104567, 83, 58.6% Obama. Henrietta township is split with SW Monroe. Shape necessary to keep number of splits at one not counting Rochester.
176 Irondequoit - Webster 103643, 86, 54.1% Obama. And far north Rochester.
177 Rochester E 99378, 37, 36 Black, 22 Hispanic, 82.4% Obama
178 Rochester W 101877, 46 Black, 35 Anglo, 11 Hispanic, 83.8% Obama. Technically the airport is a non-contiguous part of the city, but nobody lives there and I gave it to the SW constituency.
179 Greece 96095, 86, 50.2% McCain. The constituency consists of exactly one township.

180 Orleans - W Monroe - E Niagara 102911, 91, 57.4% McCain
181 Niagara Falls 98415, 81, 11 Black, 53.1% Obama.
182 Lockport - North Tonawanda 103615, 92, 49.9% McCain. The cities of Niagara Falls and North Tonawanda and surrounding townships of Niagara and Wheatfield are too large taken together, hence Falls had to be united with the northern rural parts of the county.



183 NE Erie 97097, 94, 55.6% McCain
184 Amherst 98546, 82, 55.3% Obama. Excludes southeast corner, includes northeast corner of (town of) Tonawanda
185 Cheektowaga - Williamsville 99843, 86, 54.7% Obama. Excludes southwest corner (oh and sorry for that stupid eastward strip. I blame the precinct design), includes Williamsville and nearby places in Amherst. Depew village (the map seems to call it "Cheektowaga") split along township line, though I'm not sure how much power townships have in villages anyways.
186 Tonawanda - Grand Island 101589, 92, 53.8% Obama. See above regarding split.
187 Buffalo NW 103530, 56, 19 Hispanic, 17 Black, 74.9% Obama
188 Buffalo NE 100314, 74 Black, 17 Anglo, 93.8% Obama
189 Buffalo S - Lackawanna 95274, 81, 61.7% Obama. Also includes Sloan and nearby parts of Cheektowaga. Putting the split here rather than say including Kenmore was necessary to keep the Hispanic areas (which are actually fairly large, all along the northern waterfront - but are triracially mixed rather than solidly Hispanic. There's actually a thin wedge of whiteyland between this area and the solidly Black northeast) united in the NW seat. Creating two Blacks-electing districts in the north would probably have been possible.
190 West Seneca - Orchard Park (- Elma - Aurora), 98864, 96, 50.7% McCain
191 Hamburg (etc), 96166, 94, 50.2% Obama

192 S Erie - N Chautauqua - N Cattaraugus 95938, 89, 49.8% McCain
193 Allegany - S Cattaraugus 99808, 93, 55.9% McCain
194 Chautauqua (part) 95192, 92, 52.1% McCain
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« Reply #62 on: March 09, 2012, 06:49:37 AM »

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Hammond - East Chicago - Whiting 95415, 41 Hispanic, 30 Anglo, 28 Black, 79.1% Obama
Gary - Hammond E 100404, 71 Black, 17 Anglo, 92.5% Obama
Note that the section of Hammond included is fairly White, removed from the Hammond district to up the Hispanic influence there. The Black-dominated parts of East Chicago have a sizable Hispanic but next to no Anglo population, so using them leaves the other district about tied between Hispanics and Anglos. Still, it's a legitimate alternative.
WC Lake (Schererville etc) 98769, 81, 11 Hispanic, 51.0% Obama. Saint John township is split with S.
EC Lake (Lake Station, Merrillville etc) 103820, 60, 21 Black, 15 Hispanic, 66.5% Obama
S Lake (Crown Point etc) 97579, 88, 54.2% McCain

Portage (part) 102015, 84, 10 Hispanic, 55.0% Obama
Valparaiso - S La Porte - Starke 96668, 91, 50.4% Obama
La Porte (part) 100490, 80, 12 Black, 61.5% Obama

South Bend City 102600, 57, 26 Black, 13 Hispanic, 71.1% Obama. Includes German Township. Excludes one near-detached precinct  to the south.
NE Saint Joseph 95299, 84, 52.9% Obama. Got sick of fashioning something near-reasonable that splits only Penn township or Mishawaka city, and technically split them both along reasonable lines.
S Saint Joseph - NW Marshall 95778, 91, 51.6% McCain
Kosciusko - SE Marshall 97663, 90, 66.9% McCain



Elkhart 102389, 72, 15 Hispanic, 50.4% Obama
Goshen (Elkhart County SE) 95170, 83, 13 Hispanic, 62.3% McCain
Steuben - Lagrange - DeKalb E 101478, 95, 57.1% McCain
Noble - Allen N - DeKalb W 99084, 92, 62.5% McCain
Fort Wayne C 99838, 48, 30 Black, 13 Hispanic, 71.6% Obama
Fort Wayne E - New Haven (and some additional townships) 101881, 86, 56.9% McCain
Fort Wayne W (and some additional townships) 97641, 85, 55.6% McCain
E Allen - Adams - Wells - Jay 99690, 96, 61.9% McCain



Huntington - Wabash - Whitley 103304, 96, 61.0% McCain

Pulaski - Jasper - Newton - Benton - Warren - White NW 96612, 93, 56.3% McCain
Tippecanoe N - Carroll - White SE 96005, 82, 53.5% Obama
Tippecanoe S 103447, 82, 53.4% Obama

Cass - Fulton - Miami 96705, 88, 56.3% McCain
Howard - Tipton 98688, 89, 53.7% McCain



Boone NW - Clinton - Montgomery 100037, 91, 59.0% McCain
Hendricks N - Boone SE 95019, 91, 63.3% McCain
Hendricks S - Morgan NE 102492, 89, 59.9% McCain
Morgan S - Johnson S - Brown 102161, 96, 59.8% McCain
Johnson N 97517, 91, 62.9% McCain

Marion SW (it would be better to name all or most of these for neighborhoods and/or former townships. I just didn't bother.) 97845, 84, 53.3% McCain
Marion SE 98109, 85, 56.5% McCain
Marion W 1022236, 66, 17 Black, 13 Hispanic, 55.8% Obama
Marion ESE (purple) 100853, 73, 14 Black, 58.0% Obama
Marion ENE (yellow) 103275, 57 Black, 30 Anglo, 83.9% Obama
Marion C 101421, 54 Black, 34 Anglo, 88.3% Obama
Marion NW 99468, 48 Black, 28 Anglo, 19 Hispanic, 80.7% Obama
Marion N (- far NW) 100773, 72, 18 Black, 61.2% Obama
Marion NE (right, so this would be "Lawrence") 99313, 67, 20 Black, 53.5% Obama

Shelby - Hancock S 95003, 95, 62.3% McCain
Hamilton Fishers - Hancock N 101665, 85, 59.5% McCain
Hamilton Carmel 95747, 85, 60.8% McCain
Hamilton N 96592, 90, 62.3% McCain

Anderson 101446, 83, 11 Black, 53.3% Obama
Grant - N Madison 100251, 89, 53.3% McCain

Muncie 98750, 86, 58.9% Obama
Henry - Rush - S & E Delaware - Blackford 98396, 96, 51.6% McCain

Wayne - Randolph - Union 101995, 91, 52.5% McCain
Fayette - Franklin - Decatur - Ripley 101916, 97, 61.2% McCain
Dearborn - Jefferson - Switzerland - Ohio 99831, 96, 60.6% McCain

Bartholomew - Jennings N 96205, 89, 54.2% McCain
Lawrence - Jackson - Jennings S 97624, 95, 57.8% McCain

Bloomington 104403, 83, 69.9% Obama
Sullivan - Clay - Owen - E Monroe 103511, 96, 49.7% McCain

Putnam - Fountain - Parke - Vermillion 99798, 95, 52.1% McCain (and two townships in Vigo. Map shows the larger of these - Otter Creek - split, but numbers wholly include it here.)
Vigo (part) 96804, 86, 57.9% Obama

Knox - Daviess - Greene 103253, 95, 58.1% McCain
Gibson - Pike - Dubois - Martin 98571, 95, 54.6% McCain

N Vanderburgh - Posey 103341, 94, 56.0% McCain. Includes the 5th ward of Evansville.
Evansville 102272, 79, 14 Black, 58.8% Obama. Includes two tiny remnant townships split in two by the city

Warrick - Spencer - Perry 99979, 95, 51.2% McCain

Crawford - Orange - Washington - Scott - N Harrison 103309, 97, 55.3% McCain. And two townships of Clark County
Floyd - S Harrison 99828, 91, 55.2% McCain
Clark (part) 104033, 85, 52.4% McCain

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« Reply #63 on: March 10, 2012, 04:39:01 AM »

And now for something lighter and funnier that took ten minutes to draw



Fargo 95452, 89 Anglo, 55.0% Obama
Southeast 99120, 95 Anglo, 49.5% Obama
Northeast - Grand Forks 92512, 90 Anglo, 50.3% Obama
Central - Jamestown 96022, 80 Anglo, 17 Native, 51.2% McCain
Northwest - Minot 97636, 92 Anglo, 59.8% McCain
Bismarck 98887, 92 Anglo, 60.3% McCain
West 92962, 86 Anglo, 10 Native, 62.2% McCain

Took a care to put the reservations in only two districts. Rivercrossing in the north is to prevent splitting Fort Berthold (which is on both sides of the river and in four counties or so, and yeah, there's Native residents in all the parts.)
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« Reply #64 on: March 10, 2012, 04:45:35 AM »

Hmmm... just noticed that Williams County is not one of those four. That opens this alternative route:



Northwest - Minot 100677, 91 Anglo, 60.7% McCain
Bismarck 96927, 92 Anglo, 60.0% McCain
West 91881, 87 Anglo, just under 10 Native, 61.5% McCain

Williams does have something of a Native presence even though it's not a reservation county, as you can see. Bismarck district still includes Mandan city.

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« Reply #65 on: March 10, 2012, 05:02:23 AM »

No, sorry, that second version must have a trapped precinct or two, probably in Bottineau. Yellow district is oversized.

Noticed that when I drew this for a joke:



All reservations united in a single district made wholly of whole counties. Forces a split of Bismarck, though, and is still just 25% Native (and 53.0% McCain.)

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« Reply #66 on: March 10, 2012, 01:23:02 PM »



"What the fuck is this shit", you ask. Well to be quite frank it's more a study of what's possible than anything else. A Black district in Pittsburgh (pink) and as close as possible to a Black district (47.8 Anglo, 45.9 Black. Anglo majority VAP though) in Allegheny County outside the city of Pittsburgh. In red, in case you didn't know.
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« Reply #67 on: March 11, 2012, 07:59:57 AM »



Thar she blows. 127 districts. Winds its way east to west, beginning at Northeast Philadelphia and ending at New Castle.

It is a widely known fact that William Penn created the Keystone State for the express purpose of frustrating uniform swing assumptions, with Obama running far ahead of generic legislative, statewide or congressional candidates in some parts of the state and far behind in others... not that these types of races all perform alike either... and not as if the state's politcs were known for producing generic candidates. Still, presidential figures will have to do.

Some of these SE PA names are very much provisional / hurried / could be done infinitely better, especially by someone who knows his way around.



Outer Northeast 99951, 80 Anglo, 52.7% Obama
Inner Northeast 99936, 74 Anglo, 56.4% Obama
Northern Riverfront 102177, 65 Anglo, 17 Black, 13 Hispanic, 61.7% Obama
Wissnoming 97075, 35 Black, 30 Anglo, 21 Hispanic, 11 Asian, 80.5% Obama
Olney 101529, 48 Black, 26 Hispanic, 13 Anglo, 11 Asian, 88.3% Obama
Germantown 100156, 90 Black, 98.0% Obama
Northwest 95543, 65 Anglo, 26 Black, 80.0% Obama (not undersized by chance, obviously...)
Wayne Junction 95916, 87 Black, 98.4% Obama
North Kensington 102565, 66 Hispanic, 20 Black, 10 Anglo, 89.8% Obama
Spring Garden 101155, 61 Black, 22 Anglo, 10 Hispanic, 95.4% Obama
Central 99125, 79 Anglo, 78.9% Obama
South Philly 100472, 67 Anglo, 14 Asian, 66.4% Obama
Point Breeze - University City 98414, 41 Black, 35 Anglo, 16 Asian, 89.6% Obama
Lancaster Avenue 95418, 85 Black, 96.6% Obama
West Philly 95289, 87 Black, 98.6% Obama

Elmwood - Delaware E 102888, 63 Black, 19 Anglo, 11 Asian, 85.2% Obama



Note that I had to split three towns in Delaware County: Darby and Upper Darby for contiguity as well as colorline reasons, Ridley just because it annoyingly spikes south to the river.

S Delaware 95878, 55 Black, 36 Anglo, 79.3% Obama (a racial gerry. Basically.)
EC Delaware 99804, 83 (Anglo that is, of course of course), 55.2% Obama (ugly southern spike because I didn't like the alternatives any better. That's the boundary between Darby and Ridley defining the west side of the spike.)
WC Delaware 102674, 89, 54.4% Obama
N Delaware 103450, 89, 56.6% Obama
W Delaware 95620, 87, 50.1% McCain

E Chester 100316, 85, 54.8% Obama
C Chester 104437, 86, 53.9% Obama
S Chester 98946, 77, 15 Hispanic, 51.7% Obama
W Chester 99250, 75, 14 Black, 59.1% Obama (the famous Mainline effect!)
N Chester 95937, 88, 51.7% Obama

MontCo has way too many districts for cardinal point names. Some of these have more obvious names than others. No towns split (nor in Chester or Bucks, either).

Montgomery Merion 96376, 81, 67.3% Obama
Montgomery Providence (?) 104043, 84, 52.7% Obama
Montgomery Pottstown 191997, 86, 55.4% Obama
Montgomery Lansdale (?) 105003, 81, 52.6% Obama
Montgomery Norristown 97685, 64, 17 Black, 12 Hispanic, 63.8% Obama
Montgomery Whitemarsh (?) 99033, 82, 60.3% Obama
Montgomery Abington & Cheltenham 99068, 71, 18 Black, 70.4% Obama
Montgomery Moreland (?) 96669, 83, 55.1% Obama

Bucks Doylestown - Warminster 101317, 89, 52.3% Obama
Bucks Bensalem 99349, 81, 54.3% Obama
Bucks Bristol - Falls 103182, 80, 65.4% Obama
Bucks Makefield - Middletown 96179, 87, 54.8% Obama
Bucks Northampton - Newtown - Buckingham 98780, 92, 50.4% McCain
Upper Bucks 98049, 93, 49.7% McCain

Allentown W - S Lehigh - Bucks Quakertown 103843, 88, 53.2% Obama

Allentown 100156, 48 Hispanic, 37 Anglo, 11 Black, 75.1% Obama (bulk of city, and wholly within city limits)
E Lehigh 103019, 84, 55.5% Obama (see Northeast map below)

W Lehigh - Berks Kutztown 96450, 89, 50.5% McCain

Reading 95171, 55 Hispanic, 32 Anglo, 78.7% Obama (the cities of Reading, West Reading, and Kenhorst)
N Berks 95745, 89, 50.9% McCain
S Berks 96883, 89, 49.7% McCain
E Berks 98065, 93, 50.4% Obama

Northampton Bethlehem 98675, 72, 19 Hispanic, 61.1% Obama
Northampton Easton 97470, 78, 57.1% Obama
N Northampton 101590, 93, 49.8% McCain (see Northeast map below)

NE Lancaster 100106, 94, 66.2% McCain
NW Lancaster 101866, 94, 62.0% McCain
Lancaster City 96492, 54, 29 Hispanic, 10 Black, 66.8% Obama (and Lancaster township and southern parts of Manheim township)
SE Lancaster 101819, 91, 62.2% McCain (with the remainder)
SW Lancaster 102836, 90, 55.6% McCain

C York - Lancaster Columbia 96035, 87, 53.6% McCain (Columbia was chosen because there's a bridge here. Two precincts of the surrounding township were included as well though that was probably technically unnecessary.)

York City 99882, 67, 15 Hispanic, 14 Black, 56.9% Obama (and some surrounding places)
SE York 99184, 93, 60.7% McCain
SW York 98475, 93, 61.2% McCain

N York - Cumberland Mechanicsville 97862, 93, 60.6

Um. Just noticed the Harrisburg area isn't in any of the screenshots I took (besides the statewide). Going to rectify that now... here:



W Cumberland 98277, 92, 56.5% McCain
E Cumberland 96989, 86, 55.7% McCain

Adams (whole county) 101407, 91, 59.2% McCain

Harrisburg 95470, 42 Anglo, 38 Black, 13 Hispanic, 74.3% Obama (Black plurality is impossible, I think, though I didn't check the other bank of the river. Maximum Black pack that I found split three townships instead of the one shown here, for precious little gain.)
N Dauphin 102691, 86, 56.1% McCain
S Dauphin - W Lebanon 100131, 87, 55.5% McCain
Lebanon (part) 103376, 85, 11 Hispanic, 58.7% McCain



W Schuylkill 101024, 95, 54.5% McCain
E Schuylkill - Carbon 97440, 93, 49.2% McCain
W Monroe - SE Luzerne - N Carbon 97953, 76, 11 Hispanic, 10 Black, 53.3% Obama
E Monroe 100055, 71, 13 Hispanic, 11 Black, 58.5% Obama
Hazleton - W Luzerne 101355, 83, 13 Hispanic, 53.2% McCain
Wilkes-Barre 102821, 85, 59.8% Obama
NE Luzerne 103650, 95, 55.7% Obama

Scranton 96384, 83, 66.8% Obama
E Lackawanna 101067, 95, 61.0% Obama
Susquehanna - Wyoming - NW Lackawanna - N Wayne 97454, 97, 52.9% McCain
Pike - S Wayne 101355, 87, 53.2% McCain

Bradford - Tioga 104603, 97, 60.3% McCain

Lycoming (part) 100339, 91, 61.4% McCain
Columbia - Montour - Sullivan - E Lycoming 101811, 95, 54.0% McCain
Northumberland - Muncy 100479, 95, 56.6% McCain. The kind of situation where you're sorely tempted to relax your rules just a tiny bit. Northumberland is barely too small, and wouldn't be in many states that happened to round up rather than down for their seat total.

Union - Snyder - E Mifflin 101042, 92, 61.0% McCain
Perry - Juniata - W Mifflin 100894, 96, 66.4% McCain. It is not coincidental that the somewhat ugly split of Mifflin is visible at the far NW corner of the Harrisburg map.



N Franklin - Huntingdon 97544, 93, 66.1% McCain
S Franklin 97987, 89, 64.3% McCain. I was perfectly ready to do an extra county split here with the pairing to the west, but that just didn't work out nice either.

Bedford - Fulton - S Blair 95390, 97, 71.8% McCain
N Blair 96306, 95, 58.5% McCain

Somerset - S Cambria 103983, 96, 59.0% McCain
C Cambria - Johnstown 104420, 92, 50.5% Obama
Indiana - N Cambria 101898, 95, 52.7% McCain

Armstrong - SW Jefferson 98265, 98, 62.8% McCain
Clearfield - NE Jefferson 97527, 95, 56.2% McCain

State College 100521, 84, 60.4% Obama
N Centre - Clinton - Cameron 97792, 96, 54.0% McCain

Warren - McKean - Potter 102722, 96, 57.2% McCain

Clarion - Elk - Forest - E Venango 104853, 96, 55.4% McCain
SW Crawford - NE Mercer - W Venango 104019, 96, 56.5% McCain
E Erie - NE Crawford 101238, 96, 50.7% Obama
Erie City 101786, 72, 16 Black, 71.6% Obama (not going to bother with a closeup, but it's literally just the city)
W Erie 104690, 94, 53.5% Obama
SW Mercer 104017, 90, 50.7% Obama

N Butler 102694, 96, 60.6% McCain
S Butler - Marshall - Pine 100751, 95, 65.7% McCain



NW Allegheny 99562, 92, 54.9% McCain
NE Allegheny 102953, 94, 53.7% McCain
Pittsburgh North Bank - Shaler 97530, 77, 18 Black, 59.8% Obama
Pittsburgh C 103295, 74, 11 Black, 76.5% Obama. Bit of a misnomer I admit.
Pittsburgh E 104126, 57 Black, 36 Anglo, 87.7% Obama. And on into those Black suburbs, of course. Penn Hills is split. Can't do without that huge proboscis, sorry. You're scraping 8% Black precincts to get to population without dropping below 50.0% Black (total population) without it. And sorry to the Blacks in the precincts right by the river south of the proboscis, of course.

Pittsburgh S 99939, 77, 16 Black, 64.8% Obama. With the two tiny cities of Mount Oliver (the enclave) and Ingram; without the semi-detached 31st ward to the east. IIRC keeping Ingram in was actually an oversight in restoring something I'd drawn once before.
W Allegheny 95408, 88, 49.8% McCain
Correcting the Ingram issue:
Pittsburgh S 96609, 77, 17 Black, 65.1% Obama.
W Allegheny 98738, 88, 49.5% McCain (17 votes margin!) Much better. Cheesy

Allegheny Mount Lebanon 99046, 91, 52.6% Obama
Allegheny Bethel Park 104367, 93, 52.1% McCain
Allegheny McKeesport 99120, 86, 11 Black, 51.6% Obama
Allegheny West Mifflin 96576, 78, 18 Black, 59.5% Obama. Yeah, I switched over to named divisions here cause there's one cardinal point too few. This last includes the 31st ward. It also includes one precinct of Baldwin, both because that precinct consists of three parts two of which are non-contiguous to the bulk of the township (there's a further two-precinct enclave that looks like a split of Mount Lebanon on the DRA map because Mount Lebanon too is officially a township and not a place) and because including it in the Bethel Park district takes that outside tolerance.
E Allegheny 101843, 81, 13 Black, 51.8% Obama

NW Westmoreland 103781, 93, 58.0% McCain
C Westmoreland 101442, 94, 59.1% McCain. Or you could name this one for places in it. Hempfield township is split with E, btw.
E Westmoreland 95751, 97, 59.8% McCain
S Westmoreland - N Fayette 103947, 96, 53.5% McCain
S Fayette 96854, 91, 52.2% Obama

E Washington 99737, 94, 52.1% McCain
S Washington - Greene 98012, 93, 50.9% McCain
N Washington - S Beaver 101621, 91, 49.6% Obama. Splitting Beaver along the Ohio happened to work out . Cheesy
C Beaver 104283, 91, 51.7% McCain (well, N Beaver minus a few places in the far north, really)
Lawrence - N Beaver 104500, 94, 52.6% McCain
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« Reply #68 on: March 12, 2012, 06:59:11 AM »

Kentucky.



You notice the populations are in the images.



And another closerup of Louisville.



No political data for Kentucky in the DRA. Numbering scheme losely follows congressional districts'.

Anglo (and Black where over 10) percentages:
6 western counties 89
Paducah 88
Hopkinsville 74-17
6 Ohio River counties 90
Owensboro 90
Madisonville 91
near-donut 92
Bowling Green 80
4 1/2 counties east of Owensboro 94
5 1/2 southeast of that 92
Hardin County 78-11
6 counties east of Bowling Green 94
Somerset etc 95
5 to the north 92
Bullitt, Nelson, Washington 93
Shelby, Spencer 89
S Jefferson 83
SW Jefferson 83-10
Newburg - Shively 47-37. Attempting to unite suburban Blacks, spanning cross the airport to trap as few White areas in between as necessary. Shively (unlike Newburg) borders the urban Black bits, but the boundary there matches the pre-amalgamation city boundary.
Louisville W 29-66
Louisville E 90
Jeffersontown etc 79-12
NE Jefferson 81
Prospect and four rural counties 91
ugly Outer North Kentucky thingie 93
N Boone 89
N Kenton 88
Campbell - Taylor Mill 94
7 counties northeast of Lexington 93
Ashland 96
I-54 district 96
Clark-Menifee-Jackson 7 1/2 county thing 95
Blue Kentucky Girl seven 96
Pike & Floyd 98
Perry, Knott, Letcher, Harlan 97
Whitley etc 95
Laurel etc 96
Madison with Rockcastle 92
Nicholasville etc 91 (ugh, just notice there's a county split here and I therefore should have given this a much lower number. Oh well.)
Franklin & Scott 86
Fayette NW 56-27-13. Yeah, there's Hispanics in Lexington. Shape is to cover all the minority areas, of course. It's not that segregated.
Fayette SW 83
Fayette E 79-11
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« Reply #69 on: March 12, 2012, 11:01:01 AM »

Tennessee. Given the shape of the state, a statewide map is impracticable. E to W, like the congressional districts.



Washington 99435, 90, 67.8% McCain (I actually changed it slightly compared to the map above, but not cutting into Johnson City just doesn't work out right)
Carter - Unicoi - S Washington 99281, 94, 72.1% McCain

Sullivan Bristol - Johnson 98631, 96, 70.8% McCain
Sullivan Kingsport - E Hawkins 101877, 94, 71.2% McCain
Greene - Hawkins 100223, 95, 70.8% McCain

Hamblen Morristown - Grainger - Claiborne - Hancock 100898, 89, 68.4% McCain
Hamblen S - Cocke - Jefferson 102027, 93, 72.3% McCain
Sevier (with a bit of Jefferson) 98266, 92, 74.2% McCain

Campbell - Anderson Oak Ridge 96354, 92, 63.6% McCain
N Knox - Union - E Anderson 103348, 95, 73.8% McCain
Knoxville E (extends beyond the city limits) 98801, 70-23, 55.1% Obama
Knoxville W (doesn't) 97354, 82, 53.2% McCain (the slight hint of yin & yang is to get all the Black precincts into E... but the area outside the city was not chosen for such reasons but just on account of what worked given geography. Does have a Dem "average", for whatever they're worth.)
W Knox 102825, 88, 68.5% McCain
S Knox - N Blount 103252, 90, 67.7% McCain
Blount - E Monroe 100203, 94, 71.1% McCain
McMinn - Polk - Monroe 101663, 92, 69.3% McCain

Bradley 98963, 89, 75.2% McCain



Hamilton E 100841, 81, 74.1% McCain (Collegedale, East Ridge, some unincorporated parts, precious little of Chattanooga)
Chattanooga C 102230, 39-52, 67.6% Obama
Hamilton W 104667, 89, 68.7% McCain (suburbs; all of Chattanooga on the right bank of the river and also the southwest corner)
Hamilton N - Sequatchie - Bledsoe - Rhea - Meigs 99275, 94, 71.1% McCain

Loudon - Roane 102737, 92, 70.4% McCain

Morgan - Scott - four more counties on the Upper Cumberland 97195, 97, 67.0% McCain

Cumberland - E Putnam 102884, 92, 67.8% McCain (Cookeville itself is split along the motorway, with the smallish southern portion included in the next district)
Warren - Van Buren - White - W Putnam 96718, 92, 63.1% McCain. Sorry for the low contrast. Noticed that a bit late.

Franklin - Marion - Grundy - Tullahoma 99928, 91, 60.1% McCain. Portion of Coffee County included is identical to the city of Tullahoma.
Coffee - Bedford - Moore - E Marshall 98633, 86, 66.6% McCain
Maury - W Marshall 100220, 81-12, 60.4% McCain

Lincoln - Giles - Lawrence 104715, 90, 66.5% McCain

E Wilson - 6 Upper Cumberland counties 103446, 93, 61.9% McCain
Wilson 103993, 87, 68.7% McCain



Sumner (part) 102128, 87, 66.1% McCain
Hendersonville - Goodlettsville 97059, 81-11, 64.5% McCain
Nashville NW 104014, 37-53, 79.2% Obama
Nashville E 101949, 68-20, 55.7% Obama
Nashville SE 103409, 41-32-19, 67.5% Obama
Nashville C 103428, 37-42-15, 79.7% Obama. Didn't manage to get this to Black plurality VAP. Cry
Nashville SW 104698, 83, 52.0% Obama
Oak Hill - Brentwood 104642, 83, 62.5% McCain
W Williamson - Franklin 101742, 86, 68.3% McCain
E Williamson - Outer Rutherford 101249, 88, 70.3% McCain
Rutherford Smyrna - La Vergne 103122, 72-13, 59.6% McCain
Rutherford Murfreesboro 105672, 73-15, 55.1% McCain

As you can see, quite sizable constituencies. Sorry for precinct design around Murfreesboro.



Robertson - Cheatham 105388, 88, 66.0% McCain
Clarksville 96108, 59-24, 54.3% Obama. Not quite the entire city.
Outer Montgomery - Houston - Stewart 97973, 81, 60.2% McCain

Dickson - Hickman - Humphreys - Perry 100809, 92, 57.7% McCain

5 counties on either side of the Tennessee River 98414, 91, 70.4% McCain

Madison 98294, 58-36, 53.5% McCain (D average)

4 1/2 counties on the Tennessee's left bank 102468, 90, 64.8% McCain
Gibson - Weakley - W Carroll 99103, 82-14, 65.1% McCain

4 1/2 northwest corner counties 103677, 81-14, 67.1% McCain
3 counties and the southern half of Lauderdale 101151, 57-39, 52.6% McCain (D average) Drawing a nonmetropolitan Black district requires splitting Jackson, and its county fit the population target so... Lauderdale split is a colorline, of course. I wouldn't have drawn it to look like that otherwise.



Tipton - Millington 97172, 70-24, 64.0% McCain
Bartlett 96905, 73-18, 67.7% McCain
Memphis E - Fisherville, 102029, 61-27, 59.5% McCain
Germantown - Collierville (and into Memphis...) 99261, 75-15, 68.5% McCain
Memphis SE 98981, 79 Black, 87.9% Obama
Memphis SC 102328, 10-80, 93.4% Obama
Memphis EC 99878, 72-19, 54.3% McCain (Midtown to the west votes Democratic, but the eastern part is white suburbs)
Memphis NE 97880, 22-63-13, 75.3% Obama
Memphis NW 97948, 15-81, 89.5% Obama
Memphis SW 96343, 96 Black, 97.8% Obama
And undersized seats to match Nashville.
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« Reply #70 on: March 14, 2012, 12:09:03 PM »

I find the prospect of starting on Illinois or that execrable hellhole that Georgia has become quite daunting.

Someone explain to me why, in that case, I did Florida instead. 188 districts. Percentages are of major party vote.



SW Escambia 100471, 71 Anglo, 15 Black, 66.4% McCain
C Escambia 98264, 47 Anglo, 43 Black, 56.9% Obama. Drawn with a total disregard to municipal lines but a view to compactness (else there's the Black town of Cantonment to the north, out of reach but not that far out of reach...)
NE Escambia 98884, 81 Anglo, 11 Black, 68.7% McCain. Or else Pensacola E - N Escambia. C Escambia would then be called Pensacola W.

S Santa Rosa 104606, 86 Anglo, 73.5% McCain
N Santa Rosa - N Okaloosa 100758, 80 Anglo, 11 Black, 74.4% McCain
S Okaloosa, 99442, 74 Anglo, 70.5% McCain. Shape of the Air Force Base really dictated districts here. S Santa Rosa is a bit unfortunate actually, but the others came out nice.
Walton - Holmes - Destin 102358, 87 Anglo, 76.3% McCain.

Washington - N Bay 96367, 86 Anglo, 76.0% McCain
Panama City 97381, 73 Anglo, 16 Black, 66.2% McCain. Could have drawn this really compact and the other a donut, but the areas to the southeast are really unaccessible from anywhere else.

Gadsden - Jackson 96159, 50 Anglo, 41 Black, 53.1% Obama

Wakulla - S Leon - Apalachicola River 99398, 77 Anglo, 16 Black, 63.4% McCain
Tallahassee S 104725, 51 Black, 37 Anglo, 79.2% Obama
Tallahasssee N 103116, 74 Anglo, 15 Black, 56.9% Obama
N Leon - Madison - Hamilton - Jefferson 98186, 64 Anglo, 28 Black, 51.0% McCain. A district of Gadsden, Madison, Hamilton and Jefferson is in the allowable range, but still White plurality (nevermind noncontiguous.)



Lower Suwannee 101820, 79 Anglo, 13 Black, 72.4% McCain
Columbia - Baker (and a bit of Suwannee) 99178, 78 Anglo, 16 Black, 70.7% McCain

Outer Alachua - Bradford - Union 98299, 75 Anglo, 17 Black, 61.3% McCain
Gainesville SW 95824, 68 Anglo, 14 Black, 59.0% Obama
Gainesville NE 97268, 52 Anglo, 30 Black, 73.1% Obama

SW Clay 95438, 79 Anglo, 71.9% McCain
NE Clay 95427, 75 Anglo, 71.3% McCain. County is barely in range for two districts. Saint John's even more barely so, but that trapped an unwieldy number of people in Duval and Nassau, never mind that it would have been very difficult to balance without splitting a precinct.



Jacksonville W - Baldwin 104612, 59 Anglo, 26 Black, 59.7% McCain
Jacksonville SW (right bank) 101218, 57 Anglo, 28 Black, 52.3% McCain
Nassau - NE Duval 99241, 84 Anglo, 71.6% McCain
Jacksonville N 103784, 71 Black, 23 Anglo, 80.5% Obama
Jacksonville C 101718, 57 Black, 33 Anglo, 72.7% Obama
Jacksonville E 104766, 55 Anglo, 24 Black, 11 Hispanic, 54.4% McCain
Duval Beaches 103704, 78 Anglo, 63.8% McCain
Jacksonville SE 101066, 64 Anglo, 13 Black, 11 Hispanic, 58.8% McCain
Jacksonville S (left bank) 101116, 75 Anglo, 64.0% McCain
W Saint Johns (and into Duval) 104131, 80 Anglo, 68.6% McCain
E Saint Johns 102260, 89 Anglo, 63.7% McCain

Flagler 95696, 76 Anglo, 11 Black, 50.8% Obama. I've never been sure of the source of Democratic strength here compared to places just north. Another county that's barely large enough.

Volusia Ormond Beach 99116, 82 Anglo, 51.0% McCain. Actually juts into Daytona, excising areas on the west side of the city with a wholly disconnected suburban-style roadgrid.
Volusia Daytona Beach 98130, 68 Anglo, 23 Black, 63.0% Obama. Port Orange is split down the middle.
Volusia New Smyrna Beach 95788, 90 Anglo, 51.9% McCain
Volusia DeLand 97669, 75 Anglo, 13 Hispanic, 50.5% McCain
Volusia Deltona 103851, 62 Anglo, 26 Hispanic, 55.5% Obama

Putnam - NE Marion (Lake is a similar colour but a different district) 100885, 77 Anglo, 13 Black, 60.4% McCain
Ocala 101321, 69 Anglo, 17 Black, 10 Hispanic, 55.4% McCain
SE Marion 103832, 78 Anglo, 11 Hispanic, 56.9% McCain
W Marion 99616, 71 Anglo, 14 Hispanic, 12 Black, 53.8% McCain



Levy - Citrus and Hernando Coast 99403, 87 Anglo, 59.4% McCain
E Citrus 102212, 89 Anglo, 58.3% McCain
Sumter (- E Hernando) 101069, 83 Anglo, 63.3% McCain
Spring Hill 95985, 80 Anglo, 13 Hispanic, 51.4% Obama
N Pasco - Mid Hernando 103286, 86 Anglo, 55.1% McCain. Sorry, Hernando County.
NW Pasco 103680, 86 Anglo, 52.5% Obama
SW Pasco 101487, 86 Anglo, 50.4% McCain
S Pasco (Land O'Lakes) 101122, 70 Anglo, 17 Hispanic, 53.9% McCain
E Pasco 104688, 75 Anglo, 15 Hispanic, 54.5% McCain

S Lake 99310, 63 Anglo, 21 Hispanic, 52.7% McCain
Mid Lake 101640, 81 Anglo, 59.2% McCain
NE Lake 96102, 80 Anglo, 57.9% McCain



N Seminole (Sanford) 102141, 56 Anglo, 21 Black, 17 Hispanic, 55.3% Obama
E Seminole (Winter Springs) 98078, 74 Anglo, 14 Hispanic, 55.3% McCain
S Seminole 99800, 67 Anglo, 19 Hispanic, 50.6% Obama
W Seminole 103157, 71 Anglo, 17 Hispanic, 56.2% McCain

Winter Park (extends into Seminole) 95024, 65 Anglo, 15 Hispanic, 14 Black, 51.8% Obama
Apopka 97616, 52 Anglo, 22 Black, 22 Hispanic, 51.9% Obama
Winter Garden 98459, 55 Anglo, 21 Hispanic, 14 Black, 50.3% Obama
Orlando NW 98575, 61 Black, 18 Anglo, 14 Hispanic, 79.6% Obama
Orlando SW 96225, 56 Black, 21 Anglo, 17 Hispanic, 83.8% Obama
Orlando C - Conway 96751, 77 Anglo, 14 Hispanic, 50.2% McCain
UCF Area (no seriously, this is what some map called an area somewhat alike to though smaller than my pink district. Its presence also explains the voting patterns, of course.) 98232, 57 Anglo, 26 Hispanic, 60.6% Obama
Union Park 95375, 42 Anglo, 40 Hispanic, 60.3% Obama (not a very good name)
Orlando SE - Azalea Park 96405, 51 Hispanic, 35 Anglo, 63.7% Obama
S Orange 96439, 48 Hispanic, 23 Anglo, 21 Black, 72.4% Obama
SW Orange 104761, 62 Anglo, 18 Hispanic, 11 Asian, 52.3% McCain. Only >10% Asian district in Florida.

Kissimmee N - Hunters Creek 101144, 58 Hispanic, 25 Anglo, 70.4% Obama. Extends into Orange.
(Kissimmee S -) W Osceola 100929, 46 Hispanic, 36 Anglo, 12 Black, 65.0% Obama
E Osceola 99064, 57 Anglo, 34 Hispanic, 51.0% McCain

Brevard Cocoa - E Orange 101873, 60 Anglo, 20 Hispanic, 13 Black, 50.0% Obama. 28 vote margin in this somewhat unfortunate district.
Brevard Titusville 98291, 81 Anglo, 57.5% McCain
Brevard Rockledge - Merritt Island 104404, 81 Anglo, 59.4% McCain
Brevard Melbourne 102985, 77 Anglo, 54.6% McCain
Brevard Beaches 97920, 90 Anglo, 57.9% McCain
Brevard Palm Bay 97040, 63 Anglo, 17 Black, 15 Hispanic, 53.7% Obama



Indian River (part) 101271, 78 Anglo, 12 Hispanic, 58.3% McCain
Fort Pierce - Florida Ridge 98854, 54 Anglo, 27 Black, 16 Hispanic, 57.9% Obama
Port Saint Lucie E 101511, 72 Anglo, 15 Hispanic, 11 Black, 53.1% Obama
Port Saint Lucie W 104538, 62 Anglo, 18 Hispanic, 16 Black, 55.0% Obama
W Martin - Okeechobee - W Saint Lucie 97112, 73 Anglo, 18 Hispanic, 60.2% McCain
E Martin 98845, 82 Anglo, 11 Hispanic, 55.2% McCain

Highlands 98786, 71 Anglo, 17 Hispanic, 59.1% McCain

Look back to the Central Florida map...
S Polk (Bartow - Frostproof) 97142, 65 Anglo, 19 Hispanic, 13 Black, 56.4% McCain
SE Polk (Lake Wales) 97451, 57 Anglo, 25 Hispanic, 15 Black, 50.5% Obama
Winter Haven - Haines City 101699, 59 Anglo, 20 Black, 18 Hispanic, 50.5% Obama
N Polk (Polk City) 102626, 70 Anglo, 18 Hispanic, 54.7% McCain
Lakeland N 102278, 62 Anglo, 20 Black, 14 Hispanic, 50.3% Obama
Lakeland S 100899, 74 Anglo, 12 Hispanic, 10 Black, 58.5% McCain
Yeah, I've no idea how I managed to do that. 3 Obama districts in Polk County. I didn't even look once at presidential figures. They'd all likely elect Republicans, anyways.



St Petersburg W 103872, 83 Anglo, 52.4% Obama. Half of it outside the city proper.
St Petersburg S 95015, 52 Black, 39 Anglo, 79.9% Obama
St Petersburg N 103146, 81 Anglo, 55.3% Obama. And this is why there's that Petersburg carveout in the congressional map.
Pinellas Park 102129, 77 Anglo, 52.1% Obama
Seminole - Beaches 102866, 91 Anglo, 53.8% McCain. Not the only Pinellas district with beachfront, but something of a theme with the district anyways.
Clearwater - Largo 103438, 71 Anglo, 13 Hispanic, 12 Black, 56.6% Obama
South Highpoint - Safety Harbor 103326, 77 Anglo, 12 Hispanic, 52.4% Obama
Dunedin - Palm Harbor S 98828, 86 Anglo, 50.6% Obama
Tarpon Springs - Palm Harbor N 103922, 85, 53.3% McCain

Onto Hillsborough...
Keystone - Westchase 100646, 68 Anglo, 19 Hispanic, 54.1% McCain
Lake Magdalene 101788, 66 Anglo, 19 Hispanic, 52.1% McCain
Egypt Lake 98027, 52 Hispanic, 34 Anglo, 60.4% Obama. Town'n'Country had to be split three ways. (Or else both it and Egypt Lake split, but the effect on the numbers is... not negligible but literally nonexistent.)
Tampa S 101025, 76 Anglo, 13 Hispanic, 51.8% McCain. Only district to be actually wholly in Tampa.
Tampa W 102194, 42 Hispanic, 31 Anglo, 23 Black, 71.5% Obama
Tampa E 100644, 54 Black, 22 Anglo, 20 Hispanic, 84.2% Obama
Tampa N 99582, 39 Anglo, 28 Hispanic, 27 Black, 68.3% Obama
Pebble Creek - Thonotosassa 98129, 59 Anglo, 17 Hispanic, 13 Black, 53.1% Obama
Plant City 97812, 61 Anglo, 28 Hispanic, 60.6% McCain
Brandon 103477, 58 Anglo, 21 Hispanic, 15 Black, 50.8% Obama. Exactly the city.
Fish Hawk - Bloomingdale 100311, 69 Anglo, 15 Hispanic, 58.8% McCain
Apollo Beach - Sun City 97770, 65 Anglo, 22 Hispanic, 54.4% McCain

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« Reply #71 on: March 14, 2012, 12:38:29 PM »

Wimauma - Hardee - DeSoto - Myakka City 99295, 53 Anglo, 35 Hispanic, 59.4% McCain
N Manatee 99440, 76 Anglo, 13 Hispanic, 57.5% McCain
Bradenton W 99149, 84 Anglo, 53.8% McCain
Bradenton E 98670, 58 Anglo, 24 Hispanic, 15 Black, 55.0% Obama. Both extending well beyond the city limits.
Sarasota E 96311, 86 Anglo, 54.2% McCain
Sarasota W 99451, 73 Anglo, 13 Hispanic, 10 Black, 59.4% Obama. Same here, with E extending into Manatee.
Mid Sarasota County ("Venice - Gulf Gate"?) 99876, 93 Anglo, 54.7% McCain
North Port 100503, 87 Anglo, 51.4% McCain

Port Charlotte 104017, 87 Anglo, 51.3% McCain
E Charlotte - Glades - North Fort Myers 96276, 85 Anglo, 58.2% McCain. Not all of N Fort Myers, actually.
Cape Coral N 97452, 71 Anglo, 21 Hispanic, 52.7% McCain
Cape Coral S - Sanibel 99266, 83 Anglo, 13 Hispanic, 58.3% McCain
Fort Myers N 97114, 38 Anglo, 30 Black, 29 Hispanic, 61.9% Obama. Eastern extension is necessary - that's the only direction it wasn't bounded by 80%+ Anglo territory. Couldn't even include all the minority areas there.
Fort Myers S 100967, 85 Anglo, 57.8% McCain
S Lee (Bonita Springs - Estero) 97419, 79 Anglo, 18 Hispanic, 59.7% McCain
E Lee (Gateway - Alva - Lehigh Acres, insofar that hasn't been used for Fort Myers N) 99105, 64 Anglo, 23 Hispanic, 55.4% McCain

Right, at one point I'd worked out that Collier+Monroe, PB+Broward+Hendry and Dade on its own made very nice populations. But I was sick of how the southern interior had been hacked to pieces further north (except for Highlands, but Highlands is atypical for the southern interior... and more typical of south and central Florida as a whole than the rest of it is.) And Collier and Monroe are nowhere near each other, they just look like they are. And Hendry + interior parts of PB + interior parts of Collier for a minority-heavy interior seat actually works out very well and leaves the right population for the remainder of Collier. (There's basically nobody living in the swamp parts of Broward and Dade, of course.) So that's what I did. Dade had to be paired with both Monroe and Broward for somewhat oversized districts on average, while coastal PB has smallish ones.

N Collier 98337, 73 Anglo, 21 Hispanic, 61.9% McCain
C Collier 96602, 69 Anglo, 23 Hispanic, 62.4% McCain
S Collier 100656, 69 Anglo, 22 Hispanic, 61.4% McCain

Hendry - Belle Glade - Immokalee 99788, 49 Hispanic, 30 Black, 20 Anglo, 60.5% Obama



By all means click to enlarge this image!

Jupiter 98921, 84 Anglo, 11 Hispanic, 53.0% McCain
Palm Beach Gardens 99195, 75 Anglo, 11 Hispanic, 52.0% Obama
West Palm Beach 100433, 55 Black, 28 Anglo, 13 Hispanic, 83.2% Obama
Palm Beach Shore 95651, 75 Anglo, 15 Hispanic, 52.0% Obama. AKA Clay West, jr. It actually makes sense at this level. (Heck, it made a degree of sense even irl!)
Haverhill (some of these names are somewhat random and are just drawn from what shows up on the map. This is one of them.) 95813, 39 Anglo, 34 Hispanic, 23 Black, 67.5% Obama
Wellington - Royal 102191, 63 Anglo, 19 Hispanic, 12 Black, 56.3% Obama
Lake Worth Road 95059, 66 Anglo, 20 Hispanic, 61.9% Obama
Greenacres 101492, 52 Hispanic, 30 Anglo, 14 Black, 67.3% Obama
Atlantis 97810, 54 Anglo, 22 Hispanic, 20 Black, 63.9% Obama
Boynton - Delray 104426, 49 Anglo, 34 Black, 13 Hispanic, 70.8% Obama (I left out the "Beach" because I left the beach out of the district. Grin )
High Point 96560, 85 Anglo, 69.7% Obama
Boca Raton 100867, 79 Anglo, 13 Hispanic, 52.5% Obama
Mission Bay 96993, 75 Anglo, 14 Hispanic, 62.7% Obama

Coral Springs N - Parkland 98607, 56 Anglo, 20 Black, 16 Hispanic, 59.9% Obama
Coral Springs S - Margate 99771, 50 Anglo, 24 Hispanic, 20 Black, 64.7% Obama
Tamarac - North Lauderdale 99278, 35 Anglo, 35 Black, 25 Hispanic, 75.9% Obama
Coconut Creek - Deerfield Beach W 97800, 64 Anglo, 18 Hispanic, 12 Black, 65.2% Obama
Pompano Beach W (- Deerfield Beach C) 100929, 44 Black, 30 Anglo, 22 Hispanic, 78.0% Obama
Pompano Beach E - Deerfield Beach E 97957, 77 Anglo, 13 Hispanic, 52.5% McCain
Fort Lauderdale E 96803, 75 Anglo, 13 Hispanic, 59.0% Obama
Fort Lauderdale W 99289, 68 Black, 17 Anglo, 11 Hispanic, 89.3% Obama
Lauderhill 100403, 75 Black, 13 Anglo, 91.1% Obama
Plantation 102443, 53 Anglo, 24 Hispanic, 17 Black, 65.3% Obama
Sunrise - Weston N 101372, 45 Anglo, 35 Hispanic, 14 Black, 64.5% Obama
Weston S - Pembroke Pines W 101553, 44 Hispanic, 39 Anglo, 56.6% Obama
Davie - Cooper City 99617, 59 Anglo, 26 Hispanic, 57.9% Obama
Hollywood N & E - Dania 101428, 64 Anglo, 24 Hispanic, 62.3% Obama
Hollywood SW 101864, 33 Black, 33 Hispanic, 30 Anglo, 78.3% Obama
Pembroke Pines E 104306, 41 Hispanic, 32 Anglo, 20 Black, 68.4% Obama
Miramar W 100386, 44 Hispanic, 28 Black, 19 Anglo, 68.7% Obama

Norland - Miramar E 99778, 71 Black, 19 Hispanic, 91.9% Obama. This is the crosscounty district, of course.
Golden Glades - Ives Estates 96895, 47 Black, 30 Hispanic, 17 Anglo, 81.6% Obama
Ojus - Aventura - Bay Harbor Islands 101462, 52 Anglo, 40 Hispanic, 60.2% Obama
North Miami 97902, 61 Black, 25 Hispanic, 10 Anglo, 88.9% Obama
Caroly City - Westview 103045, 68 Black, 28 Hispanic, 93.0% Obama
Country Club 98559, 79 Hispanic, 57.1% Obama. Hispanic, but not Cuban. Unlike the areas to the south as far as Kendall Lakes (except Doral).
Hialeah NW 97768, 89 Hispanic, 60.5% McCain. Extends well beyond the city, of course.
Hialeah C 95998, 95 Hispanic, 65.4% McCain. Doesn't.
Hialeah SE 101388, 91 Hispanic, 65.0% McCain. Does, but not nearly as far.
Miami NW 98736, 65 Black, 30 Hispanic, 93.8% Obama. And Brownsville, Gladeview and stuff.
Miami NE 102650, 62 Hispanic, 20 Black, 15 Anglo, 74.7% Obama. Wholly within the city except for North Bay Village. Hispanic, but not Cuban. The Miami River really marks a very sharp boundary of Cubans vs Other Hispanics in Miami.
Miami WC (aka the Original Little Havanna) 103416, 92 Hispanic, 57.0% McCain. Wholly within the city except the area just west of the airport.
Miami W 102032, 93 Hispanic, 64.3% McCain. Wholly within the city.
Miami S 101945, 49 Hispanic, 39 Anglo, 58.9% Obama. Extends into Coral Gables and stuff. Bit of an unfortunate constituency really.
Miami Beach - Key Biscayne 100918, 54 Hispanic, 40 Anglo, 61.1% Obama
Fountainbleau - Doral 103195, 86 Hispanic, 53.3% McCain. Doral is (mostly) not Cuban - indeed it's probably the only plurality Venezuelan place in the entire US - but Fountainbleau is. Anyways Doral went for Obama only very narrowly. Then again it has some Cubans too.
Tamiami - University Park 95200, 91 Hispanic, 67.8% McCain
Westchester - Coral Terrace 103520, 84 Hispanic, 14 Anglo, 64.1% McCain
Kendall Lakes - Sunset 102583, 83 Hispanic, 14 Anglo, 58.1% McCain
Kendall West 96679, 87 Hispanic, 59.7% McCain. No idea about the non-CDP places beyond, but Kendall West itself (not marked as such on the map for some reason, this is the slate colored district at the sw corner) is mostly Colombian. Not all non-Cubans vote Democratic.



The Hammocks - Richmond West 104921, 76 Hispanic, 14 Anglo, 54.7% Obama
Kendall - The Crossings 102336, 65 Hispanic, 25 Anglo, 52.6% Obama
Princeton - Goulds - Perrine 103790, 52 Hispanic, 38 Black, 80.1% Obama
Pinecrest - Palmetto Bay 103790, 48 Hispanic, 39 Anglo, 54.4% Obama
Homestead 101460, 63 Hispanic, 23 Black, 13 Anglo, 70.1% Obama

Monroe - Naranja 101623, 62 Anglo, 30 Hispanic, 51.1% Obama
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« Reply #72 on: March 14, 2012, 08:56:50 PM »

This thread is great.
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« Reply #74 on: March 16, 2012, 11:35:09 PM »

Good stuff!

Hoping to see Mississippi soon!
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