TJ's District Maps Series

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Here's my submission.  All districts within 1% of optimum size.

Laurens is split between the 1st and 2nd.
Lexington is split between the 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 7th.
Dillon is split between the 4th and 8th.
Georgetown is split between the 8th and 9th.
Charleston is split between the 9th and 10th.

The chosen split of Laurens lets the town of Fountain Inn, which straddles the Greenville/Laurens border to be in a single district, so the rules essentially force the 2nd district to be as drawn, which forces the 1st to be as drawn as well.

Likely I could have arranged to split Lexington less, but only at the cost of shifting those splits onto other counties and having additional municipality splits. Columbia and Cayce both straddle the Lexington/Richland border and Batesburg-Leesville straddles the Lexington/Saluda border. Also any map with Lexington essentially intact forces the 5th to take in more of the Savannah River counties and makes it essentially impossible to have any minority-majority districts.

As it is, the 7th is just barely a minority-majority district and the 6th is just barely a majority-majority district. The 6th and 7th are both safe D, the 10th is lean R, and the other 7 are safe R.

It likely would be possible to get a more strongly minority-majority district by splitting Richland County and the city of Columbia, but it would leave only one safe D district and given the demographics of the 6th in this map, while it would be white majority, it would likely have a black Democrat winning the primary and thus the seat.