Blue districts in Red Areas (And vice/versu)

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

So I've been messing around with North Carolina's congressional maps and noticed a lot of blue dots in the red sea that is western North Carolina and this was the mess that I made out of that.


This lovely monster stretchers from Hendersonville/Asheville to Boone, to Gastonia, to Winston-Salem (horrible I know).

However, that reminded me of another unholy spaghetti monster I made a while ago...


A Dem +2 district in the *heavily* republican upstate of South Carolina. Going all over from Spartanburg to Anderson to Aiken to Newberry to Lancaster and Rockhill.


I also once made a map for New Hampshire with two safe seats for each party (one D+7, the other R+6)


So that got me wondering if anyone has made any other horrible spindly districts trying to give the minority party in a region/state a seat. Feel free to throw in any other random snakes. It's always fun to see the extremes of gerrymandering.

[Sol]

There's always the snakes one can draw linking any of Lancaster-York-Harrisburg-Reading.

Sorry for no map.

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

There's always the snakes one can draw linking any of Lancaster-York-Harrisburg-Reading.

Sorry for no map.

No need to be sorry ! That does sound absolutely cursed

[Stuart98]

Clinton +0.4 district in a Cube Root Rule (4 district) map of Idaho


5 Clinton +11 (or more) majority black districts in a Cube Root Rule (10 district) map of Louisiana


Mississippi with 3 districts that are D+2 in the composite:


Indiana with with 4 democratic districts (could make the 5th and 8th even PVI instead of keeping them each at about R/D +4.5 instead)

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

The Louisiana one isn’t too dissimilar from an actual district in the 90s.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Made a Clinton+0.2 district in ultrarepublican Southwest Florida:

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

Made a Clinton+0.2 district in ultrarepublican Southwest Florida:

What a beautiful nightmare, could you make a district out of the area left out?

[Roll Roons]

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Clinton +20 district in downstate Illinois that strings together Champaign, Bloomington, Peoria, Springfield and the Metro East. I legitimately felt sick after doing this.

[Sol]

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Clinton +20 district in downstate Illinois that strings together Champaign, Bloomington, Peoria, Springfield and the Metro East. I legitimately felt sick after doing this.

Here's a map I did with two firmly Clinton downstate seats (vom). Not pleased with Chicagoland as a gerrymander so please ignore.

I finished up the map I posted above (link)

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

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Clinton +20 district in downstate Illinois that strings together Champaign, Bloomington, Peoria, Springfield and the Metro East. I legitimately felt sick after doing this.

Here's a map I did with two firmly Clinton downstate seats (vom). Not pleased with Chicagoland as a gerrymander so please ignore.

I love how hideous that is

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

Is there any way to make a red district in Brooklyn/Queens, LA, or Chicago?

[Sol]

Is there any way to make a red district in Brooklyn/Queens, LA, or Chicago?

Brooklyn is trivially easy and would probably appear on a fair map. There's a big chunk of GOP areas in Southern Brooklyn, thanks to the Hasidic and Orthodox communities, as well as Russian emigres and Italians.

Don't think that's doable in the others though.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Is there any way to make a red district in Brooklyn/Queens, LA, or Chicago?

You can easily draw a very compact Safe R district in Southern Brooklyn.

You can't draw any Republican district while staying entirely within Queens.

I was able to create a Cox 2018 monstrosity entirely within LA County, but it appears it barely voted for Clinton in 2016 and who knows in 2020.

Apparently you can't draw a Republican district while staying entirely within Cook County either.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Crammed 10 Trump districts into Southern California. Clinton would average over 71% in the remaining 19 districts.



EDIT: Made it 10 Trump districts.

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

Crammed 9 Trump districts into Southern California. Getting a 10th in might be possible, but I gave up on it. Clinton would average over 70% in the remaining 20 districts.

I wonder what kinda representatives would they elect, probably more Steele/Stefanik/Collins types (faux moderates)

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Made a Clinton+0.2 district in ultrarepublican Southwest Florida:

What a beautiful nightmare, could you make a district out of the area left out?

[Hope For A New Era]

Missouri - three D+5 districts and one D+10 district.

https://davesredistricting.org/join/89a6e736-4f12-4367-9ef0-cf0a02e323fd

That's a truly nightmarish shoestring connecting Kansas City, Columbia, Jefferson City, Springfield, and St. Louis (county).

The four D districts are designed for trends, too. This is with 2016 Presidential data. They will only become more D during the 2020s, the northern KC-centered one especially.

Also, the McCloskeys get to be in a Safe R district with this map (lol).

It's possible to make a more geographically balanced map by making two districts linking Kansas City to Columbia and Jefferson City respectively and hugging the river, but then those two districts are only Clinton +1. Trends will change this eventually, though.


Obviously, this ignores the VRA. I'll have to see if it's still possible while following it.

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

Missouri - three D+5 districts and one D+10 district.

https://davesredistricting.org/join/89a6e736-4f12-4367-9ef0-cf0a02e323fd

That's a truly nightmarish shoestring connecting Kansas City, Columbia, Jefferson City, Springfield, and St. Louis (county).

The four D districts are designed for trends, too. This is with 2016 Presidential data. They will only become more D during the 2020s, the northern KC-centered one especially.


Also, the McCloskeys get to be in a Safe R district with this map (lol).

It's possible to make a more geographically balanced map by making two districts linking Kansas City to Columbia and Jefferson City respectively and hugging the river, but then those two districts are only Clinton +1. Trends will change this eventually, though.


Obviously, this ignores the VRA. I'll have to see if it's still possible while following it.

I live for the blue spanning the state