Applying the cube root rule for state houses

[Hope For A New Era]

Okay, so here's Missouri with 182 districts.

This was a nightmare to do. The Kansas City and St. Louis metros have like 349823049039424309 tiny municipalities, and it takes a lot of creative boundary-drawing to avoid cutting them.

I also worked very hard to avoid cutting rural towns, just because it seems a little ridiculous. Probably like half the time working on this map was spent just trying to figure out how to avoid cutting Richmond, MO in Ray County.

Here's the plain map:



And here's the partisanship map.

Really goes to show just how intense the urban-rural polarization is here. Granted, this is is using 2016 Presidential data, which is when the polarization was at the most intense it has ever been and hopefully the most intense it will ever be, but still.

The blue blob in the middle is a five-way split of Columbia, to try to at least slightlly balance out the extreme efficiency gap that the rural-urban polarization creates. (There's a district in St. Louis on this map that voted literally 98% D in 2016. It's really, really extreme). The lighter red bit in the southwest is a similar three-way split of Springfield (those areas are likely to trend heavily D and turn blue in the future). The same applies to a lot of suburban Kansas City and St. Louis.