It's pretty easy to draw 2 Republican NYC seats, that why Dems draw such hideously scrambled lines around Manhattan/Brooklyn/Queens, to disperse the strongly Republican south Brooklyn area
Sorry, but do you know what you're talking about? The last round of redistricting had a Republican Governor and a Republican State Senate.
If the Dems could draw the Congressional map like they drew the Assembly map that year, the Congressional map could easily have zero Republican NYC seats by connecting Staten Island to Manhattan instead of Brooklyn.
NYC is a convoluted mess at the Congressional level, like all of New York State, due to incumbent protection gerrymandering mixing with VRA majority-minority districts, and the negative space created by those districts.
VRA is racially divisive, and I don't agree with that. That's why I paid no attention to racial communities when I drew my NYC map. One man, one vote. Period
LOL. A brief look at the Long Island districts clearly disproves that.
At what point does race trump community of interest considerations?
