The 100k Districts Series

[minionofmidas]

No presidential data for Arkansas on the DRA. I suppose I could edit in figures for whole county districts.

1 Baxter, Marion, Izard, Fulton, W Sharp. 96935, 96 White
2 Greene, Lawrence, Randolph, Clay, E Sharp. 97993, 96 White
3 Craighead (Jonesboro) 96443, 80 White, 13 Black
4 Mississippi, Poinsett, Cross, Woodruff, W Saint Francis 104460, 71 White, 24 Black
5 Crittenden, Phillips, Lee, E St Francis 103074, 56 Black, 40 White. One of four Black majority districts, and the easiest to draw.
6 Lonoke, Prairie, Monroe, Arkansas 104239, 82 White, 13 Black
7 White, Jackson, E Faulkner (Vilonia) 103199, 88 White
8 Faulkner (sans Vilonia) 105111, 82 White, 11 Black
9 N Pulaski 104343, 76 White, 16 Black. Splits through North Little Rock and Jacksonville informed by race - this map's a gerrymander.
10 E Pulaski 98761, 54 Black, 35 White. The cross-river district. There had to be one, of course. Balancing the figures to get both Black-opportunity districts (which occur "naturally") to be Black-majority-VAP districts, that's where the gerrymandering came in. Very little wiggleroom for that. Of course, knowing me, if I hadn't managed to make it I'd probably have ungerried these a bit...
11 C Pulaski 99151, 55 Black, 33 White. At least it's virtually entirely within Little Rock city limits! (Two precincts partially outside, only one of which seems to have considerable population outside.)
12 W Pulaski, Perry, W Saline 100822, 84 White. The need to excise the most heavily White bits in northern Little Rock (not North Little Rock), the fact that Pulaski has 380k people and all but one neighboring county are suburban and have considerable population, and the desire to not split Benton all informed this rurban monstrosity.
13 E Saline 97234, 88 White
14 Jefferson, Desha, N Lincoln 96436, 54 Black, 42 White. Given that Jefferson County has 80k people and a Black VAP majority, this was more difficult than it ought to have been - couldn't be done without going to the Mississippi (or into Little Rock). Adding the northern half of Chicot does not erode the Black majority further but adds a county split. Actually, exchanging Chicot for the portion of Lincoln included does not erode the Black majority, but makes the district noncontiguous. (Adding all of Chicot would make the district too large - and erode the Black majority somewhat, though it's still over 50% VAP.)
15 Chicot, Ashley, Drew, Bradley, Cleveland, Dallas, Calhoun, S Lincoln, NE Ouachita (using the Ouachita River as the boundary) 99670, 66 White, 28 Black
16 Union, Ouachita (bulk), Columbia, Nevada, Lafayette 102408, 60 White, 36 Black. Least White district outside of the Minority-Majority ones.
17 Miller, Hempstead, Little River, Sevier 97159, 66 White, 22 Black
18 Grant, Hot Spring, Clark, Pike, Howard 98851, 81 White, 13 Black
19 Garland, Montgomery 105511, 85 White. As it happens, Garland County is barely large enough for a district of its own, barely not too large with Montgomery added. Including it here saved a county split.
20 S Sebastian, Logan, Yell, Scott, Polk 101151, 88 White
21 N Sebastian (Fort Smith) 101026, 68 White, 15 Hispanic
22 Johnson, Pope, S Conway 102493, 85 White
23 Independence, Stone, Cleburne, Van Buren, N Conway 98380, 93 White
24 Boone, Carroll, Madison, Newton, Searcy 96591, 92 White
25 Crawford, Franklin, S Washington 96930, 89 White
26 Fayetteville (with suburban areas to the the south, east and west. C Washington) 102876, 84 White
27 Springdale, Siloam Springs (N Washington, SW Benton. If you will. Hugs the northern limits of Fayetteville) 103175, 62 White, 28 Hispanic
28 E Benton (Rogers) 102045, 71 White, 23 Hispanic. Hispanic populations concentrated in Springdale proper and Rogers proper. Not really workable to combine them in one district that wouldn't elect one anyways.
29 W Benton (Bentonville) 100081, 84 White. And yeah, though Bentonville and Rogers border both are wholly within their respective districts.

[minionofmidas]

1 Tulsa N 94095, 36 Black, 34 Anglo, 18 Hispanic, 71.6% Obama. Bringing the North Tulsa Ghetto up to size with mixed areas in the northeast. It's not my fault the ghetto extends into Osage County. White plurality VAP, but a district like this would be represented by a Black anywhere in America.
2 Tulsa E 96595, 51 Anglo, 24 Hispanic, 12 Black, 58.9% McCain
3 Tulsa C 97425, 74 (single figure is always Anglo. With scattered Black, Hispanic, Native, and Mixed populations, lots of districts in the 70-83% Anglo range with all minorities under 10), 55.1% McCain, D avg
4 Tulsa (city) S 97193, 70, 66.8% McCain
5 S Tulsa County 95750, 79, 74.4% McCain
6 Broken Arrow 100645, 74, 72.4% McCain. The city is in both Tulsa and Wagoner counties and so is the district. Although the southwestern part is in the fifth district.



7 Muskogee - outer Wagoner 100361, 62 Anglo, 16 Native, 59.7% McCain, D avg
8 Creek - Sand Springs (far west Tulsa County) 95172, 79, 70.1% McCain
9 Washington - N Tulsa County 97259, 76, 71.9% McCain
10 Osage (bulk) - Kay - Noble 99521, 76 Anglo, 12 Native, 71.4% McCain
11 Rogers - Mayes W 95739, 74 Anglo, 13 Native, 71.8% McCain
12 Ottawa - Craig - Nowara - N Delaware - N Mayes 101291, 70 Anglo, 17 Native, 65.2% McCain, D avg
13 Cherokee - Adair - S Mayes - S Delaware - N Sequoyah, or "Cherokee Nation" for short. Yes, a district purpose drawn to maximize Native responses, wholly within Cherokee territory. Tthough the cut into Sequoyah is also justified by the next district's population constraints. Sorry to Mayes County, though, getting split threeways like that. 103052, 49 Anglo, 35 Native, 60.8% McCain, D avg
14 Le Flore - Haskell - Sequoyah (bulk) 102196, 71 Anglo, 15 Native, 68.8% McCain, D avg
15 McCurtain - Choctaw - Pushmataha - Latimer - Pittsburg S (with all of McAlester) 103479, 68 Anglo, 16 Native, 69.6% McCain, D avg
16 Seminole - McIntosh - Okfuskee - Hughes - Pittsburg N 99955, 68 Anglo, 17 Native, 62.0% McCain, D avg
17 Pottawatomie - Seminole 94924, 73 Anglo, 14 Native, 68.2% McCain
18 Bryan - Atoka - Coal - Pontotoc 100015, 72 Anglo, 15 Native, 69.0% McCain, D avg
19 Carter - Love - Marshall - Johnston - Murray 97265, 73, 69.6% McCain, D avg
20 Lawton 99526, 55 Anglo, 20 Black, 12 Hispanic, 54.2% McCain, D avg
21 Stephens - Jefferson - Cotton - Tillman - Kiowa - Outer Comanche 99723, 79, 72.5% McCain. No good reason not to draw a donut.
22 Custer - Beckham - Wash**ta - Greer - Jackson - Harmon - Roger Mills 100471, 75 Anglo, 14 Hispanic, 76.0% McCain
23 12 Counties of Northwest Oklahoma 99995, 76 Anglo, 18 Hispanic, 82.7% McCain. It would be possible to move Roger Mills County here, though both districts would be near the edges of population tolerance it may have better Community of Interest here (the three counties along the interstate are sorta kinda more urban/exurbanized)
24 Logan - Garfield 102428, 80, 72.5% McCain
25 Payne - Pawnee 93927, 80, 64.5% McCain. Yes, that's within range for Oklahoma which has a population of just over 3.75 million (and thus very narrowly wins a 38th seat)
26 Lincoln - E Oklahoma - E Cleveland 100582, 83, 72.1% McCain. Ugly leftovers district.



27 Edmond 96416, 80, 70.7% McCain
28 Oklahoma City NW 97991, 73 Anglo, 11 Black, 67.4% McCain
29 Oklahoma City NC 99392, 65 Anglo, 14 Hispanic, 53.1% McCain, D avg
30 Oklahoma City E 95437, 52 Black, 32 Anglo, 72.9% Obama. Yes, Black VAP majority. Yes, quite the ugly district. And splitting the sizable suburban municipalities of Midwest City and Del City up.
31 Oklahoma City SE 97850, 64 Anglo, 15 Black, 61.9% McCain. And you know where the largest Black populations here are? Just south of Del City.
32 Oklahoma City SC 97393, 51 Hispanic, 33 Anglo, 50.8% Obama. At least it's Hispanic plurality VAP. My perceived need to draw a Hispanic-opportunity district also meant the splitting of another "natural" CoI - Central OKC - and thus almost held Obama down to 1 district in the county (and 2 in the state). For a Central OKC district would be a very safe Democratic district, but south of that you got partly Hispanic suburbs where Whites vote mostly Republican (with some Democrats) and Hispanics vote mostly not (with some Democrats).
33 Oklahoma City W (or Bethany) 103263, 59 Anglo, 18 Hispanic, 12 Black, 63.6% McCain
34 Moore 101026, 73, 71.1% McCain
35 Norman 101759, 75, 50.0% McCain (by 21 votes), D avg. Drawing this as an Obama district is very easy - just move the northeasternmost precinct to the 26th, for instance - but not the point of this exercise.
36 Garvin - McClean - S Cleveland - E Grady 101362, 81, 74.5% McCain
37 Caddo - W Grady - W Canadian - Kingfisher 96739, 72 Anglo, 11 Native, 71.0% McCain. Native populations mostly in Caddo County, and would evidently be happier in a Lawton-aligned district. I didn't find a way.
38 E Canadian 94139, 82, 77.2% McCain

[minionofmidas]

Write-up on 251 districts to follow tomorrow. Are these detailed enough or do you insist to see everywhere this clearly?

[minionofmidas]

Ho hum then. -_-

Numbering scheme begins at Galveston because I say so, works its way through the Houston Metro, East Texas, DFW, West Texas, Central Texas, South Texas and winds up at El Paso.

I'm mentioning where an Obama district has an R average (about a dozen of them) or a McCain district has a D average (2 of those). In districts with a Hispanic plurality or close to I'm also adding the Spanish Surname Voter Registration percentage (note that not all Census Hispanics have Spanish Surnames), except in >75% Hispanic districts in San Antonio and by the Rio Grande. Those all have very solid SSVR majorities.

3 districts for Galveston County:
1 Galveston - Texas City 95723, 44 w, 29 h, 23 b, 58.3% Obama
2 League City 96084, 67 w, 20 h, 68.6% McCain
3 Friendswood - La Marque 99502, 66 w, 19 h, 11 b, 66.9% McCain

3 districts for Brazoria County:
4 South (Lake Jackson) 103867, 59 w, 29 h, 69.0% McCain
5 Central (Alvin - Angleton) 104465, 54 w, 32 h, 10 b, 68.5% McCain
6 North (Pearland) 104834, 47 w, 22 h, 16 b, 13 a, 58.1% McCain

6 districts for Fort Bend County:
7 Outer 97324, 59 w, 20 h, 10 b, 68.9% McCain
8 Rosenberg - Greatwood - Pecan Grove 97423, 41 w, 39 (25) h, 13 b, 61.8% McCain
9 Missouri City 98008, 56 b, 26 h, 13 w, 79.8% Obama
10 Sugar Land East - Stafford 95305, 37 w, 30 a, 16 h, 14 b, 55.4% McCain
11 Sugar Land West 97157, 37 a, 31 w, 16 h, 14 b, 52.9% McCain. Only Asian plurality district in the state.
12 Mission Bend - Cinco Ranch 100158, 37 w, 25 h, 19 b, 17 a, 56.7% McCain

40 districts wholly in Harris County, roughly counterclockwise from southwest. Obviously names are approximate and just plucked from the Silverlight map.
13 Katy - Barker 104206, 56 w, 27 h, 69.9% McCain
14 Clay Road 97325, 45 (22) h, 31 w, 16 b, 52.6% McCain
15 Bear Creek Park 102380, 43 w, 35 h, 11 a, 62.5% McCain
16 Jersey Village 101542, 48 w, 27 h, 13 b, 11 a, 63.8% McCain
17 Fairbanks 103751, 68 (29) a, 21 w, 55.0% McCain. Yes, that is the kind of Hispanic voter registration rate we're dealing with, on the west side of Houston, in DFW and in Austin. Elsewhere it's better. (In West Texas and also near the Gulf Coast, the Hispanics vote. It's just that they only lean Democrat while the Whites vote Republican almost to a man.)
18 Bunker Hill - Hunters Creek 103743, 70 w, 13 h, 68.9% McCain
19 Westchase 101571, 37 w, 25 h, 23 b, 11 a, 51.3% Obama, R avg
20 West Oaks 95745, 34 (17) h, 32 b, 20 a, 13 w, 65.8% Obama
21 Alief 96712, 48 (21) h, 26 b, 16 a, 66.8% Obama
22 Sharpstown 98668, 55 (16!) h, 18 b, 15 w, 11 a, 60.3% Obama
23 Gulfton 100934, 67 (24) h, 14 w, 12 b, 62.4% Obama
24 Montrose 104942, 64 w, 16 h, 11 b, 56.9% Obama. (West) Central Houston. Only White majority, solidly Democrat district outside of Austin I think.
25 Bellaire - West University Place 97943, 67 w, 13 h, 12 a, 51.7% McCain
26 Heakers - Almeda 102626, 45 (17) h, 41 b, 82.1% Obama
27 Third Ward - Pierce Junction 102839, 55 b, 21 h, 13 w, 90.0% Obama
28 Brookhaven 98230, 62 b, 30 h, 92.8% Obama
29 Pecan Park - Golfcrest 103044, 84 (60) h, 70.1% Obama
30 East Haven 98042, 60 (36) h, 19 w, 13 b, 52.2% Obama
31 Pasadena West - Allendale 97121, 83 (60) h, 14 w, 53.0% Obama
32 Pasadena East - Olcott 95649, 52 w, 37 h, 67.5% McCain
33 Clear Lake City - Webster 96717, 50 w, 26 h, 11 a, 11 b, 59.2% McCain
34 Deer Park - La Porte 96212, 66 w, 27 h, 72.1% McCain
35 Baytown 98735, 40 (21) h, 40 w, 17 b, 56.0% McCain
36 Galena Park - Channelview 99125, 68 (39) h, 18 w, 12 b, 58.1% Obama
37 Kingwood - Lake Houston 103717, 76 w, 15 h, 75.7% McCain
38 Atascosita - Humble 99104, 44 w, 28 h, 22 b, 58.9% McCain
39 Aldine - Kinwood - Dyersdale 97300, 56 (27) h, 28 b, 14 w, 72.5% Obama
40 Port Houston 102257, 73 (52) h, 17 b, 74.0% Obama
41 Shadydale - East Houston 97820, 61 b, 35 h, 96.5% Obama
42 Hawthorne Place 97994, 85 (57) h, 62.9% Obama
43 North Freeway 95473, 69 (50) h, 19 b, 11 w, 74.6% Obama
44 Houston Heights 102112, 53 w, 37 h, 52.5% Obama (wait, what? Is this a mistake in my notes? *looks it up* No, quite correct. Borders on the other one.)
45 Highland Heights - Hudson 97988, 41 b, 40 (16) h, 14 w, 74.6% Obama
46 Greens Bayou 96857, 57 (29) h, 29 b, 79.1% Obama
47 Resthaven - Westfield 103249, 42 (17) h, 41 b, 10 w, 76.2% Obama
48 Spring 99001, 42 w, 29 h, 23 b, 58.4% McCain
49 Klein 98573, 64 w, 19 h, 72.4% McCain
50 Kohrville - Louetta 100827, 64 w, 18 h, 73.3% McCain
51 Willowbrook - Satsuma 99900, 37 w, 32 h, 16 b, 13 a, 58.1% McCain
52 Cypress 100360, 66 w, 19 h, 74.7% McCain

and two districts partly in Harris County...
53 Waller (whole county) - Hockley 100470, 37 w, 37 (14) h, 21 b, 50.6% McCain
54 Tomball - The Woodlands West 100545, 75 w, 16 h, 75.9% McCain

and four wholly in Montgomery County.
55 The Woodlands East 96206, 72 w, 17 h, 72.6% McCain
56 West 103066, 81 w, 14 h, 82.4% McCain
57 East 101330, 69 w, 25 h, 77.5% McCain
58 North (Conroe) 99859, 58 w, 32 h, 74.2% McCain

59 Walker - San Jacinto - Cleveland 102917, 62 w, 19 b, 16 h, 62.8% McCain. Cleveland is a town in Liberty County.
60 Liberty (bulk) - Chambers 102067, 71 w, 18 h, 75.2% McCain

3 wholly or partly in Jefferson...
61 Hardin - Beaumont West 102116, 79 w, 11 b, 74.3% McCain
62 Beaumont 99842, 53 b, 27 w, 17 h, 72.4% Obama
63 Port Arthur 104950, 51 w, 22 b, 21 h, 55.0% McCain, D avg

[minionofmidas]

East Texas now... the rural districts here (and even a few fairly urban ones, such as the one based on Texarkana) are ~10 points more Democratic in the "average" figure than presidentially. That still makes every single one of them an R average district, just not by blowout margins.

64 Orange - South Jasper/Newton (yeah, additional county split because of what avoiding it does to the district to the north) 100102, 84 w, 74.3% McCain
65 Tyler - Sabine - South Polk - North Jasper/Newton 96050, 74 w, 15 b, 70.0% McCain
66 Angelina - North Polk 100624, 65 w, 19 h, 15 b, 67.5% McCain
67 Houston - Trinity - Madison - Leon - Freestone - South Cherokee 96558, 70 w, 16 b, 13 h, 71.8% McCain
68 Anderson - North Cherokee 101543, 61 w, 19 h, 18 b, 72.0% McCain
69 Navarro - Limestone - West Henderson 102925, 69 w, 18 h, 11 b, 68.2% McCain
70 Wood - East Henderson 99305, 82 w, 11 h, 75.7% McCain
71 South Smith 103511, 79 w, 80.1% McCain
72 North Smith 99174, 42 w, 29 h, 27 b, 53.6% McCain. A very good compromise between a geographic and a color-line split I think, though the third possible goal (urban-rural split) fell by the wayside. It's not as if I would have pulled out all the stops for a D district here if it were possible, but I don't think it is.
73 Upshur - Van Zandt - Rains (and a bit of Smith) 99216, 84 w, 76.4% McCain
74 Longview 97831, 60 w, 20 b, 16 h, 69.0% McCain
75 Panola - Rusk - South Gregg 101025, 67 w, 17 b, 14 h, 72.5% McCain
76 Nacogdoches - Shelby - San Augustine [sic, what moron named this?] 98837, 63 w, 18 b, 16 h, 66.0% McCain
77 Harrison - Marion - South Cass 101782, 69 w, 20 b, 66.8% McCain
78 Bowie - North Cass 97424, 67 w, 24 b, 68.7% McCain
79 Hopkins - Franklin - Titus - Morris - Camp 103435, 65 w, 22 h, 11 b, 68.2% McCain. I kinda wonder where the Hispanic presence here comes from?
80 Lamar - Fannin - Red River - Delta 101799, 78 w, 11 b, 70.7% McCain

Collin, Grayon, Hunt and Rockwall Counties, 11 districts
81 North Grayson (Sherman - Denison) 96031, 77 w, 12 h, 66.9% McCain
82 North West Collin - South Grayson 95250, 72 w, 14 h, 69.9% McCain
83 McKinney 98325, 70 w, 15 h, 66.5% McCain
84 Frisco 95818, 62 w, 15 a, 12 h, 62.2% McCain
85 Plano West 95536, 61 w, 15 a, 11 h, 10 b, 58.8% McCain
86 Plano South 99472, 55 w, 22 h, 13 a, 60.1% McCain
87 Plano North 98923, 59 w, 20 a, 11 h, 58.0% McCain
88 Allen 99820, 63 w, 14 a, 11 h, 62.7% McCain
89 Princeton - Wylie 95738, 65 w, 20 h, 68.1% McCain
90 Hunt - North East Collin 96803, 75 w, 14 h, 70.9% McCain
91 Rockwall - South East Collin 95968, 74 w, 16 h, 73.5% McCain

92 Kaufman 103350, 70 w, 17 h, 10 b, 68.0% McCain. The only district to be coterminous with a county in the entire state.

93 South East Ellis (Ennis - Waxahachie) 101740, 61 w, 27 h, 68.0% McCain
94 South West Johnson (Cleburne) 97720, 76 w, 18 h, 74.1% McCain
95 NW Ellis - NE Johnson (Midlothian - Alvarado) 101084, 76 w, 17 h, 74.8% McCain

23 districts in Dallas County. Everything said about Harris County names applies here as well. It's not I think possible to draw a majority SSVR district in DFW - there's hardly any precincts that have that. Obama much overperformed the Averages.
96 Duncanville - Cedar Hill 101834, 46 b, 26 w, 24 h, 66.8% Obama
97 Lancaster - De Soto 103879, 55 b, 22 w, 21 h, 77.4% Obama
98 Laureland - Arden Terrace 97278, 75 w, 20 h, 95.8% Obama
99 Oak Cliff 95968, 70 (37) h, 17 b, 12 w, 78.5% Obama
100 Rochester Park 103012, 47 b, 46 (14!) h, 92.3% Obama
101 Kleberg - Balch Springs 101698, 59 (24) h, 22 b, 17 w, 73.5% Obama
102 East Dallas - Mesquite West 100044, 46 (18) h, 26 b, 25 w, 62.2% Obama
103 Mesquite East 101094, 44 w, 26 h, 22 b, 51.1% McCain
104 Garland South 99478, 39 (14) h, 38 w, 17 b, 52.8% McCain
105 Rowlett - Garland East 96869, 57 w, 18 h, 12 b, 10 a, 61.4% McCain
106 Garland West 95218, 43 (15) h, 31 w, 12 a, 12 b, 51.1% McCain
107 Richardson 101008, 49 w, 27 h, 12 b, 54.7% McCain
108 Audelia - Fair Oaks Park 104348, 33 (7!) h, 30 w, 29 b, 57.3% Obama, R avg (very narrowly). Assuming for a second no non-Spanish-surname Hispanics, voter registration is 15% of VAP for Hispanics and 80% for Non-Hispanics. Madre de Deus.
109 White Rock Lake 104891, 61 w, 26 h, 51.1% Obama, R avg. The funny thing is that two current Republican Congressmen (Sessions and Hensarling) are registered to vote in this district.
110 Central Dallas 100862, 47 w, 34 h, 14 b, 62.3% Obama
111 University Park (- points north) 102419 82 w, 10 h, 66.2% McCain
112 North West Dallas 100019, 68 (27) h, 19 w, 66.7% Obama
113 Eagle Ford - Irving South East - Grand Prairie North 100973, 70 (37) h, 18 w, 59.2% Obama
114 Ledbetter Hills 96953, 64 (38) h, 25 b, 76.6% Obama
115 Grand Prairie East 101035, 46 (24) h, 30 w, 17 b, 52.3% Obama, R avg. The city is of course located in both Dallas and Tarrant Counties, which made for odd districts.
116 Irving West 102821, 44 (18) h, 28 w, 15 b, 10 a, 53.6% Obama, R avg
117 Irving North East - Coppell 103993, 50 w, 24 a, 14 h, 59.0% McCain
118 Addison - Farmers Branch 103400, 50 w, 33 h, 10 b, 54.7% McCain

119 Carrollton 102945, 43 w, 33 h, 14 a, 55.8% McCain. City is in Dallas and Denton Counties and so is the district.

6 Denton County districts...
120 Lewisville 102110, 51 w, 28 h, 10 b, 57.3% McCain
121 The Colony - Hebron 104024, 59 w, 18 h, 12 b, 58.6% McCain
122 North East Denton 102510, 68 w, 17 h, 64.2% McCain
123 Denton town, 98506, 60 w, 23 h, 10 b, 52.7% Obama, R avg
124 Corinth - West Denton 102465, 78 w, 14 h, 71.2% McCain
125 Flower Mound 99409, 80 w, 71.0% McCain

[minionofmidas]

As you can see I'm breaking this up into quarter sections.

18 Tarrant County districts.
126 Grapevine - Southlake - Colleyville 103438, 79 w, 11 h, 71.6% McCain
127 Bedford - Euless 99624, 64 w, 16 h, 60.8% McCain
128 Keller - Watauga 101888, 74 w, 14 h, 69.3% McCain
129 North Richland Hills 103299, 72 w, 18 h, 67.5% McCain
130 Arlington North 102877, 46 w, 31 h, 16 b, 52.2% McCain
131 Grand Prairie West - Arlington South East 104182, 30 w, 29 b, 29 (14) h, 10 a, 60.6% Obama
132 Arlington East 102330, 37 (14) h, 29 w, 23 b, 58.5% Obama
133 Arlington South West 103931, 72 w, 12 h, 64.5% McCain
134 Mansfield - Kennedale - Burleson 65 w, 16 h, 13 b, 63.8% McCain
135 Forth Worth South East 98824, 48 b, 37 h, 90.2% Obama
136 Fort Worth South 96555, 53 (28) h, 21 w, 21 b, 65.7% Obama. Under 50% Hispanic VAP.
137 Fort Worth South West 96505, 60 w, 19 h, 15 b, 55.9% McCain
138 Fort Worth West 96507, 57 w, 29 h, 11 b, 54.7% McCain
139 Fort Worth North 102234, 68 (44) h, 24 w, 57.7% Obama. It's possible to pack this even closer (somewhere like 74/47 is the maximum I think) but it forces ugly splits.
140 Fort Worth East 100612, 33 b, 31 (12...) h, 29 w, 65.2% Obama
141 Haltom City 97832, 56 w, 27 h, 62.0% McCain
142 Saginaw - Eagle Mountain - Haslet 98875, 68 w, 20 h, 67.4% McCain
143 West Tarrant 100804, 75 w, 15 h, 67.2% McCain

headin' off towards West Texas...
144 East Parker 103328, 86 w, 11 h, 77.4% McCain
145 Palo Pinto - West Parker - Hood - Somervell 101472, 83 w, 13 h, 77.1% McCain

146 Wise - Jack - Young - Archer - Baylor 99501, 81 w, 16 h, 79.9% McCain

147 Cooke - Montague - Clay - Outer Wichita 102297, 83 w, 11 h, 79.0% McCain
148 Wichita Falls 98111, 64 w, 19 h, 12 b, 66.7% McCain

149 21 counties around the base of the panhandle. Empty country. 101313, 65 w, 28 h, 74.3% McCain
150 13 counties in the northeastern panhandle. I think Pampa (where Woody Guthrie spent formative years) is the largest town. 98523, 69 w, 27 h, 86.0% McCain. Yeah. Unless it gets beat somewhere in Utah this must be the most Republican district in the known universe.

151 8 counties out on the Caprock and the northern outskirts of Amarillo. 101919, 48 w, 46 (28) h, 79.1% McCain
152 Amarillo North (Potter County) 95919, 44 w, 40 (23) h, 65.9% McCain
153 Amarillo South (Randall County) 97435, 77 w, 17 h, 81.5% McCain
154 7 counties round Plainview and the southern parts of Randall. 100892, 51 w, 43 h, 74.8% McCain

155 Lubbock East 98358, 49 (40) h, 35 w, 13 b, 50.5% McCain. This ought to be interesting.
156 Lubbock (West) Central 101161, 67 w, 24 h, 70.2% McCain. Wholly within city limits.
157 Lubbock West (South West as far as the city is concerned) - Hockley 102247, 69 w, 26 h, 79.1% McCain

158 7 counties, extending northwest from Big Spring 99672, 51 w, 43 h, 75.9% McCain

159 Midland 101569, 61 w, 30 h, 81.7% McCain
160 South Odessa - South Midland 101201, 66 (49) h, 27 w, 62.0% McCain. There is the obvious alternative of having two wholly urban Midland and Odessa districts, but I preferred to draw this prime opportunity for a Hispanic Republican. They're basically twin towns.
161 North Odessa - 7 rural Permian counties 101405, 53 w, 42 h, 79.8% McCain

162 7 West Central Texas counties and the outer parts of two more, with Sweetwater as the main population center. 102653, 67 w, 27 h, 78.6% McCain
163 Abilene 100150, 65 w, 24 h, 71.6% McCain
164 San Angelo 97030, 55 w, 38 h, 68.7% McCain. Completely donutted.

165 Kerrville - points west (10 counties) 97590, 70 w, 27 h, 74.8% McCain

166 Sutter - Kendall - Blanco - South Burnet 103845, 77 w, 20 h, 75.7% McCain
167 Coryell - Lampasas - North Burnet 102714, 66 w, 16 h, 12 b, 67.6% McCain. Fort Hood making its presence felt. You know you're in strange country when army bases depress Conservative margins of victory. I know people (siblings) who grew up here.

168 8 counties round about Brownwood and the Colorado River 103283, 78 w, 18 h, 79.6% McCain
169 Erath - Eastland - Comanche - Hamilton - Bosque 97176, 79 w, 18 h, 77.2% McCain

3 Bell County districts. At the upper limits of population tolerance, limiting options.
170 Killeen (bulk of) 103842, 35 w, 32 b, 23 h, 65.6% Obama
171 South Bell (incl. Killeen E) 102974, 54 w, 21 h, 18 b, 58.2% McCain
172 North Bell (Temple) 103419, 64 w, 21 h, 11 b, 66.5% McCain

3 wholly or partly McLennan districts
173 West McLennan (incl. the areas in Waco around the lake) 99722, 78 w, 13 h, 72.7% McCain
174 Waco Central 102064, 37 (19) h, 36 w, 24 b, 60.2% Obama
175 East McLennan - Hill - Falls - Robertson 102697, 68 w, 17 h, 13 b, 66.0% McCain

2 Brazos County districts
176 Bryan 96611, 48 w, 33 h, 15 b, 62.4% McCain
177 College Station 98240, 70 w, 14 h, 66.8% McCain. All the city and one (large) precinct directly south of it, with the Bryan district forming a near-donut around it.

178 Washington - Austin - Grimes - South East Burleson 95951, 64 w, 19 h, 15 b, 71.3% McCain
179 East Williamson - Milam - Lee - North West Burleson 98359, 61 w, 28 h, 62.1% McCain

3 wholly Williamson districts
180 North Williamson (Georgetown) 103224, 73 w, 21 h, 65.6% McCain
181 Round Rock 97869, 54 w, 28 h, 51.5% McCain
182 Jollyville - Round Rock West 97200, 63 w, 19 h, 50.3% Obama, R avg

183 Cedar Park - Jonestown 103942, 73 w, 17 h, 59.3% McCain. Mostly in Williamson but extends into Travis.

10 wholly Travis districts. Obama outperformed averages - and those are quite Democratic already. Hispanic registration as abysmal as in DFW.
184 Austin North West 102875, 78 w, 11 h, 58.7% Obama
185 Austin North 99623, 55 w, 21 h, 13 a, 62.6% Obama
186 Pflugerville 101360, 44 w, 30 h, 15 b, 59.1% Obama, R avg (barely)
187 Austin East - Manor - Garfield 101231, 54 (26) h, 23 b, 20 w, 80.0% Obama. Only rivercrossing district.
188 Austin North Central 99164, 62 (21) h, 23 w, 11 b, 77.8% Obama
189 Austin Central 99781, 58 w, 23 h, 78.7% Obama
190 Austin South Central 97192, 56 w, 36 h, 77.9% Obama
191 Austin South 97094, 62 w, 27 h, 60.9% Obama
192 Austin South East - Elroy 101246, 66 (35) h, 22 w, 75.9% Obama
193 South West Travis 98102, 80 w, 12 h, 53.2% McCain. This is where extremely wealthy Texans who need to be close to state government go to live.

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194 North Hays 95656, 58 w, 36 h, 54.3% McCain
195 South Hays - North Guadalupe (and a tiny bit of Comal. Built around San Marcos but it's drowned out by suburbs.) 102391, 61 w, 34 h, 56.0% McCain
196 South Guadalupe 101310, 55 w, 34 h, 64.7% McCain
197 Comal (bulk) 97755, 70 w, 26 h, 73.8% McCain

17 Bexar districts. Very provisional names as Silverlight was oddly unhelpful.
198 North Bexar 103935, 57 w, 30 h, 67.5% McCain
199 North West Bexar 105092, 49 w, 40 h, 61.5% McCain
200 San Antonio North West 102365, 44 (33) h, 40 w, 50.3% McCain
201 Leon Valley 99663, 55 (40) h, 33 w, 53.4% Obama, R avg
202 San Antonio West 103766, 65 (48) h, 22 w, 60.1% Obama
203 Woodlawn Lake - Garza Park (one of the west central San Antonio districts) 99452, 86 h, 70.0% Obama
204 San Pedro Avenue (the most central one) 96566, 79 h, 17 w, 64.1% Obama
205 Alamo Heights - Airport 99596, 56 w, 33 h, 54.7% McCain
206 San Antonio North - Castle Heights - Hollywood Park 103251, 55 w, 38 h, 60.2% McCain
207 San Antonio North East - Windcrest 103074, 45 w, 42 (27) h, 56.6% McCain
208 East Bexar 98431, 44 w, 37 h, 14 b, 56.1% McCain
209 San Antonio East - Kirby 104428, 48 (31) h, 29 b, 18 w, 69.7% Obama. My attempt at a Black opportunity district in San Antone.
210 San Antonio South East 95429, 76 h, 13 w, 71.5% Obama
211 San Antonio South ("King William - Flores Street"?) 98042, 89 h, 72.9% Obama
212 Amistad Park 101515, 90 h, 76.0% Obama (the more southerly west central one)
213 San Antonio South West 97611, 82 h, 13 w, 72.9% Obama
214 South Bexar 102590, 70 (55) h, 23 w, 53.8% Obama
Obviously it would have been possible to draw more Hispanic majority districts. But only by making goddamn ugly ribbons.

On to South Texas (incl. Gulf Coast) - beginning with two more prime Hispanic Republican opportunities.
215 Medina - Uvalde - Zavala - Frio 101305, 65 (56) h, 32 w, 53.7% McCain

216 Atascosa - Live Oak - Bee - West Wilson 102119, 57 (>50) h, 39 w, 57.7% McCain
217 Gonzales - Lavaca - DeWitt - Karnes - East Wilson 103093, 59 w, 34 h, 71.4% McCain

218 Caldwell - North Bastrop 96458, 49 w, 41 h, 52.3% McCain
219 Wharton - Colorado - Fayette - South Bastrop 102487, 61 w, 27 h, 11 b, 67.2% McCain

220 Victoria - Jackson 100868, 50 w, 42 h, 67.9% McCain

221 Matagorda - Calhoun - Aransas - Refugio - Goliad 95834, 53 w, 37 h, 63.7% McCain. No road contiguity but alternatives were awkward. Driving through Weedhaven is not detrimental to your health, anyways.

222 Nueces - San Patricio Coastal 99265, 56 w, 36 h, 65.5% McCain
223 Nueces - San Patricio Inland 103189, 68 (60) h, 30 w, 51.9% McCain, D avg. Much better for community of interest than anything that doesn't split San Patricio. Both districts intrude on Corpus Christi city limits but not the urban core, which can then be split by whether there  are Anglos there. Interesting elections in 223 as long as R's nominate a Hispanic.
224 Corpus Christi West 99458, 83 h, 10 w, 70.9% Obama
225 Corpus Christi East 103115, 51 (37) h, 41 w, 57.6% McCain

226 Kleberg - Jim Wells - Duval - Jim Hogg - Brooks - Kenedy 97620, 79 h, 18 w, 61.4% Obama

4 Cameron districts
227 East Cameron 100204, 86 h, 13 w, 60.2% Obama
228 Brownsville 103155, 94 h, 74.3% Obama
229 South West Cameron 104231, 93 h, 71.7% Obama
230 Harlingen 98630, 80 h, 18 w, 53.0% Obama, R avg

7 3/4 Hidalgo districts
231 North Hidalgo - Willacy 99287, 93 h, 77.9% Obama
232 Weslaco - Mercedes 96639, 91 h, 70.5% Obama
233 San Juan 99678, 94 h, 75.3% Obama
234 Pharr 103383, 93 h, 73.7% Obama
235 Ediburg - McAllen North 99836, 86 h, 10 w, 64.2% Obama
236 McAllen 102320, 87 h, 63.5% Obama
237 Mission North - Alton 98781, 93 h, 65.4% Obama
238 Mission South 96979, 88 h, 11 w, 68.6% Obama

239 Starr - Zapata - South Webb 98046, 96 h, 80.9% Obama. Portion in Webb not as small as it looks.
240 Laredo South 103808, 97 h which is yet another crazy record, 77.9% Obama
241 Laredo North 101104, 94 h, 66.8% Obama
242 Maverick - North Webb - 4 fairly empty counties 97777, 92 h, 71.1% Obama

243 Val Verde - Trans-Pecos, 104419, 73 (59) h, 24 w, 51.8% Obama. Half the population is in Val Verde.

And eight districts in El Paso County and then we're through.
244 Socorro - San Elizario 95531, 97 h (a mere 96.6 vs 97.2 in 240, though), 81.0% Obama
245 Homestead Meadows - Horizon City 100933, 88 h, 70.4% Obama
246 El Paso North East 105146, 76 h, 18 w, 63.3% Obama
247 El Paso East 100268, 87 h, 68.2% Obama
248 El Paso East Central 101836, 95 h, 81.0% Obama
249 El Paso West Central 96262, 75 h, 19 w, 64.1% Obama
250 El Paso North Side 99091, 69 (51) h, 20 w, 60.5% Obama
251 El Paso West Side 101580, 71 (51) h, 24 w, 53.6% Obama, R avg. These figures almost tempt one to draw a White-opportunity district, but there's a mountain in the way.

[minionofmidas]

Logically I ought to complete the Midwest (Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska still outstanding) but I felt more like going west.



Montana offers some rather challenging geography and population distribution. Besides, the DRA has only block groups, not precincts, and no election data. I managed not to divide any major population centers but it forced some ugly compromises. (I also drew this in less than half an hour. Ooh, I didn't even renumber.)

Billings City 102823, 87% White, 5% Hispanic
Southeast 102345, 82% White, 12% Native (Crow and Northern Cheyenne Reservations)
Kalispell 94095, 94% White
Missoula 94646, 91% White
Far West 96896, 94% White
Helena - Polson 100642, 85% White, 8% Native (Flathead Reservation, home to Salish & Kootenai Nation. Naming issues with this government-created amalgamation of peoples... not to mention it's one of those severalty-allotted, White-overrun, fertile-farmland reservations.)
Bozeman 98181, 94% White
North 99835, 70% White, 25% Native (Blackfeet, Rocky Boy's, Fort Belknap and Fort Peck Reservations. I actually tried to draw a district that stretched all the way round to take in Crow and Northern Cheyenne as well, but it got too ridiculous.)
Butte - Random Leftover Areas 98401, 94% White
Great Falls 101552, 89% White

[minionofmidas]

In the same vein, Idaho.



Bonner - Boundary - N Kootenai (includes all of Hayden) 93220, 94 w, 62.6% McCain
Coeur d'Alene 97123, 91 w, 59.4% McCain
Latah - Nez Perce (excl. the reservation) - Benewah - Shoshone 94019, 91 w, 52.9% McCain
either side of Hells Canyon 96767, 87 w, 8 h, 66.7% McCain
Caldwell - Owyhee 102619, 69 w, 27 h, 67.4% McCain
Nampa 97830, 75 w, 21 h, 66.6% McCain
Ada N (Boise NW - Eagle) 98512, 87 w, 7 h, 55.5% McCain
Ada W (Meridian) 95236, 88 w, 6 h, 64.6% McCain
Ada E (Boise E) 96734, 87 w, 6 h, 62.1% Obama. Hm-hmm.
Ada S (Boise SW - Kuna) 101883, 84 w, 9 h, 56.1% McCain
Twin Falls - Jerome 99604, 79 w, 18 h, 68.0% McCain
Snake River Valley 101285, 72 w, 24 h, 72.2% McCain. This district looks very odd - in part due to following county lines - but makes a considerable degree of sense. I think. It's more than can be said of its northern neighbor.
Bannock (excl. the reservation) - Franklin - Bear Lake 99585, 89 w, 7 h, 60.8% McCain
Blackfoot - empty center of state 93898, 79 w, 14 h, 60.0% McCain. Something had to give.
Idaho Falls 100296, 85 w, 12 h, 70.0% McCain
Rexburg - etc 98971, 88 w, 10 h, 78.4% McCain

[minionofmidas]

Wyoming. Enough for today.



Cheyenne, 91738, 81 w, 13 h, 59.8% McCain
Laramie - Rock Springs 98398, 84 w, 12 h, 57.3% McCain. Only split county but at least I managed not to split the town of Rock Springs. 100,000 inhabitants would actually be outside of range for Wyoming, strange as it sounds.
Evanston - Jackson Hole (or whatever) 89159, 87 w, 10 h, 60.6% McCain
Riverton - Cody 94455, 82 w, 9 n, 6 h, 69.7% McCain. Wind River, the reservation with two nations on it.
Casper 91767, 90 w, 7 h, 68.3% McCain
Gillette - Sheridan 98109, 92 w, 5 h, 75.5% McCain

[minionofmidas]

Another look at Montana. Better version over all.
It obviously violates an implicit rule of this thread so far, but it's the only reasonable alternative to a district stretching out into the plains from Helena (or Butte).
If you consider the Great Falls & Helena district here unbearable, then something like this is your best bet:



Oh, right (this is for the latter map)

Kalispell - Lincoln 96987, 94
Flathead Lake - diverse mountain valleys 97562, 86, 8 Native
Missoula 97211, 91
Butte - Ravalli - Beaverhead 96035, 93
Great Falls 100559, 89
Helena - points east 103486, 94
Bozeman 97204 (previous version must have a trapped precinct, in Dillon maybe), 94
North 98616, 70, 26 Native
Billings 99367, 86, 6 Hispanic
Southeast 102388, 82, 12 Native. Okay, so you probably want to move some more precincts on the outskirts of Billings back into the urban district, as in version 1.

[minionofmidas]

Colorado. 50 districts.



Boundaries outside map at top and bottom run along county lines.
A lot more county splits than strictly necessary to instill at least some sense.

Race figures listed from 5% on. 2 numbers is White-Hispanic; where other groups make it all have been listed. As Obama carried 31 districts but only 20 have a Democratic average, R avg is mentioned throughout.

1 Park - Aspen - Gunnison 96967, 85-12, 60.6% Obama. Beginning here because it doesn't county splits in more than one direction. Note the double carves into Eagle and Summit to bring it up to population and not disrupt links.
2 Eagle - Clear Creek - Steamboat Springs 100789, 79-19, 58.5% Obama. Boundary runs just west of Steamboat Springs.
3 Garfield - Moffat - Palisade 96429, 76-21, 55.8% McCain. Note the situation around Grand Junction - the town of Palisade is included here, the suburbs of Orchard Mesa and Clifton in the 5th, while the city itself and areas to the west form the 4th district.
4 Grand Junction 101661, 84-12, 63.1% McCain
5 Montrose - Delta - Clifton - Orchard Mesa 105469, 79-18, 64.6% McCain
6 Durango - Cortez - Telluride 95731, 81w-11h-6n, 52.8% Obama, R avg. Ute Reservations. Split through Montrose follows a mountain range. Tiny Hinsdale and Mineral Counties placed here to bring population within tolerance.
7 San Luis Valley - Trinidad - La Junta 101147, 56-41, 50.5% Obama, R avg. Just not enough people in the Valley.
8 Pueblo 103331, 45-51, 65.8% Obama. White VAP plurality (not majority). A Hispanic VAP plurality would have been possible, but at what price? A majority not, I think. Even as is a few White precincts in the north of the city proper have been carved.
9 Pueblo West - Fremont - Custer 104112, 77-18, 59.3% McCain
10 High Plains 100138, 79-16, 70.5% McCain. Yeah, I added that carve into El Paso County when I understood that Teller County did not logically belong with anywhere else than El Paso... which brings us to a more detailed map.



11 Fort Carson - Fountain - Security 102386, 66w-17h-9b, 57.9% McCain
12 Colorado Springs South 103417, 49w-30h-12b, 55.0% Obama, R avg. Maximized minority presence. Still a White VAP majority.
13 Colorado Springs East - Cimarron Hills 98038, 72w-14h-6b, 63.0% McCain
14 Colorado Springs Central 104324, 76-14, 53.6% McCain
15 Colorado Springs North - Black Forest 100864, 83-8, 71.0% McCain
16 Colorado Springs West - Manitou Springs - Teller 104226, 86-8, 56.0% McCain. And yeah, this map did end up screwing Dems quite a bit. Oh right, next map.



I don't know if anybody could possibly make this out, but I changed the numbering scheme in JeffCo and rejigged a few precincts in Denver and a few more in Adams between the overview map and this one. This one is the one that counts, though.
17 Castle Rock - Woodmoor 103161, 87-8, 61.8% McCain. Outer Douglas County, with a carve into El Paso to bring it up to population for three districts.
18 Parker - The Pinery 101221, 85-7, 58.2% McCain. Northeast Douglas.
19 Highlands Ranch 96878, 84w-7h-6a, 55.1% McCain. Wait, that map is not clear enough?



20 Littleton - Englewood 98010, 79-15, 53.2% Obama, R avg
21 Centennial 103295, 82w-7h-6a, 50.6% Obama, R avg
22 East Arapahoe 96699, 71w-11h-8a-7b, 50.8% McCain
23 Aurora South East 104002, 60w-17h-13b-6a, 58.3% Obama
24 Aurora Central 103545, 46w-25h-19b-5a, 66.4% Obama. White VAP majority.
25 Aurora North 97918, 50h-27w-17b, 69.2% Obama. Just under 50 even in total population. Cuts across a county line, of course.
26 Brighton - East Adams 96574, 65-28, 49.8% Obama, R avg
27 Thornton - Northglenn 104138, 54-38, 61.1% Obama
28 Westminster - Thornton North 105528, 67w-23h-5a, 56.2% Obama, R avg. That's the Adams (main) portion of Westminster, of course.
29 Commerce City - Berkley - Sherrelwood - Federal Heights 97170, 36-58, 66.9% Obama. First of three districts with a Hispanic VAP majority. If that spike between Westminster and Thornton looks odd to you, well it is a municipal boundary. It is also unnecessary to get the district over 50% VAP, Westminster south of the interstate serves just as well but introduces a non-negligible municipal split.
30 Denver North East 102521, 37h-30b-26w, 86.8% Obama. Maximizing the Black population and presumably Black plurality CVAP. Hispanic plurality VAP.
31 Denver East 99971, 68w-14h-11b, 73.4% Obama
32 Denver South East 103344, 74w-13h-6b, 66.6% Obama. These two include the enclaves that exist within the city&county, but otherwise I respected Denver's boundaries - which forced some very fine jiggling to create two Hispanic majority VAP constituencies as I couldn't drop off White areas at the city's far corners. It was *just about* possible, though!
33 Denver Central 99490, 76-14, 80.7% Obama
34 Denver North West 97006, 36-56, 81.8% Obama
35 Denver South West 104556, 35-57, 64.8% Obama. Those rich Whites out by Marston Lake vote quite marginally.
36 Columbine - Ken Caryl 96620, 84-10, 50.7% McCain
37 Lakewood South 97752, 74-19, 56.6% Obama
38 Wheat Ridge - Applewood - Lakewood North 99649, 71-24, 59.0% Obama
39 Arvada 100262, 80-15, 53.1% Obama, R avg
40 West Jefferson 98295, 91-5, 51.5% Obama, R avg. Just under 5% Hispanic, actually. You want to look at an earlier map again now.
41 Broomfield - Westminster West 97851, 80w-12h-6a, 55.5% Obama, R avg. Broomfield is of course a county of its own now.
42 Lafayette - Louisville 100584, 84-9, 70.5% Obama. And much of rural Boulder County.
43 Boulder 97691, 83-9, 84.9% Obama
44 Longmont 96292, 72-23, 59.0% Obama
45 Outer Larimer 99792, 86-11, 50.5% McCain
46 Loveland - Fort Collins South 101430, 85-11, 49.9% McCain
47 Fort Collins 98408, 83-10, 66.2% Obama
48 West Weld 104508, 76-20, 53.9% McCain
49 Greeley 103015, 56-40, 51.3% Obama, R avg
50 East Weld - Fort Morgan - Sterling 102991, 73-23, 64.4% McCain

[minionofmidas]

New Mexico. 21 districts. 2 figures is Anglo-Hispanic, 3 is Anglo-Hispanic-Native.

Clovis - Raton, 7 counties, 98279, 52-41, 61.9% McCain
Carlsbad - Hobbs, one county and the greater part of another, 47-48 (Anglo VAP majority), 66.2% McCain
Alamogordo - Artesia, one county and minority parts of three, 101209, 48-43 (Anglo VAP majority), 62.4% McCain
Outer Dona Ana, 98955, 25-73, 58.7% Obama
Las Cruces, 99785, 36-59, 59.6% Obama
Roswell - Ruidoso - Edgewood, 2 counties and parts of 2 more, 100645, 53-42, 61.5% McCain
Las Vegas - Los Alamos, 4 counties and part of one, 98535, 40-54 (Hispanic VAP majority), 72.3% Obama
Santa Fe, 95375, 42-54 (Hispanic VAP plurality), 84.7% Obama
Rio Arriba - Taos - Outer Sandoval, 24-53-21 (Hispanic VAP majority), 77.5% Obama. Loads of Upper Rio Grande pueblos and the Jicarilla Apache.



Rio Rancho - Bernalillo (the town), 98222, 51-40, 51.5% Obama, R avg
Albuquerque North - Los Ranchos - Corrales, 99999 (lol), 45-47 (Anglo VAP plurality), 60.4% Obama
Albuquerque North West ("Petroglyph" if you want named divisions), 101872, 30-61, 62.5% Obama
Albuquerque South West ("Five Points - Los Padillas"? Much of this is actually outside city limits) 97607, 14-80, 71.7% Obama
Albuquerque North East ("Paseo del Norte"), 97108, 63-26, 50.8% McCain
Albuquerque East Central ("Nob Hill - Uptown"), 95232, 55-33, 67.3% Obama
Albuquerque South East ("Manzano Hills"?) - East Bernalillo, 97435, 58-30, 51.3% Obama, R avg
Albuquerque South ("Old Town") - Isleta - Peralta, 95942, 28-58-7, 71.9% Obama. Isleta Pueblo. Sorry for that, the next district had to lose population, Albquerque had to pick up some, and the Isleta are totally in the way.
Valencia (bulk) - Cibola - Zuni, one county and parts of three more, 97965, 29-47-21, 59.9% Obama. Acoma, Laguna, Zuni, and the Ramah and Canoncito Navajo enclaves (the latter is why the cut into Bernalillo)
Navajoland (part on the cool side of the stateline), part of two counties, 94713, 10-11-77, 68.2% Obama
Farmington, 98308, 54-24-19, 68.8% McCain. Loads of Navajo in this natural ressources town just offrez, obviously.
Silver City - Deming - Socorro, five whole counties, 93082, 46-49 (Anglo VAP majority), 54.5% Obama, R avg

The following reservations are trapped in Native-under-5%-districts: Mescalero Apache (Alamogordo. Nothing to be done for that as it's too far from all other Native Country), Alamo Navajo (Silver City. Bordering the Cibola district, but fixing this would have required two county splits as removing it brings the Silver City district below tolerance), Nambe, Tesuque, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso (in northern Santa Fe county and the Las Vegas district. I suppose fixing this could be done, but it'd require a complex set of changes and additional cuts).

[minionofmidas]

And I notice that Navajoland (not the district, the land. Not the official reservation either, of course) appears to extend into northwestern Sandoval. Oh well.

[minionofmidas]

And another oddball state with oddball geography. This is what I went West for. 64 districts. 2 figures is ever White-Hispanic. Where more groups make it past 5% all are named.



1 Yuma West, 96483, 16-80, 57.0% Obama
2 Yuma East, 99268, 54-40, 64.7% McCain. Make of that what you will.
 
3 Kingman - Lake Havasu City (yeah, I'm jumping a county. So?) 101723, 83-12, 68.3% McCain
4 Bullhead City 98463, 76-17, 62.1% McCain. This is, like, the way to split Mohave County in two and not split any of its three main population centers. Mohave-Coconino County line splits Kaibab Paiute and Hualapai Reservations, but populated parts are wholly in Mohave.

5 Flagstaff - Page - Hopi 103192, 60w-19n-16h, 56.4% Obama. Only way not to split the Navajo (except for Coalmine and Cameron. Contiguity overrules.) Little bite into Yavapai because not doing that extra county split forced something weird. One of the Mohave districts could have taken the area instead.
6 Navajoland (AZ) 101053, 94% Native, 80.2% Obama. Yessir.
7 Chino Valley - Cottonwood - Sedona 103995, 79-15, 56.4% McCain. Unfortunate but avoids splitting Prescott.
8 Prescott 101965, 84-12, 63.1% McCain

9 Payson - South Navajo (county) - Eagar 104252, 76w-15h-6n, 72.2% McCain. Chock full of Mormons. A few Navajos in the towns, especially Winslow. Vernon had to be removed to bring the district within tolerance.
10 Safford - Douglas - Apache 95126, 38h-35w-24n (White VAP plurality), 54.9% McCain
11 West Cochise 102537, 67-22, 62.4% McCain
12 East Pinal - Globe 101732, >50w-37h-5n, 56.3% McCain. Two thirds of the Natives are in the huge, voter-poor Cactus Forest precinct... I think that has the diverse state prisons round Florence. Welcome to Arizona - a warm version of Canada. (Canadian prisons can be as full of Natives as American prisons are of Blacks. I would suppose the same is true in South Dakota or Montana.)

13 Apache Junction 98000, 80-15, 59.8% McCain. Note this district extends into Maricopa.
14 San Tan Valley 98443, 67-23, 59.9% McCain
15 Casa Grande - Maricopa (city) 102118, 53w-33h-6b, 53.8% McCain
16 West Pinal - Buckeye - Tohono O'odham 102014, 41w-34h-19n, 55.0% McCain. What a crazy leftovers district. Indians include Gila River and Ak-Chin as well as Tohono O'odham. There's another leftovers district nearby, of course, but first we go down to Tucson.



17 Oro Valley - Picture Rocks 97621, 77-17, 58.7% McCain
18 Casas Adobes - Flowering Wells - Kino 104260, 68-24, 52.9% McCain
19 Tucson West - Drexel Heights 97977, 34-59, 62.1% Obama
20 Tucson Santa Cruz 101812, 23-68, 71.3% Obama. Named for and follows the riverbed.
21 Tucson South East 99112, 65h-24w-5b, 67.1% Obama
22 Tucson Sam Hughes 104413, 63-24, 69.7% Obama. Silverlight calls it that. The named divisions are mostly to avoid the question of what should be considered Central, of course.
23 Tucson East 102523, 65w-23h-5b, 50.1% Obama, R avg
24 Catalina Foothills - Tanque Verde 103600, 79-12, 50.0% McCain. Extends into Tucson city limits actually.
25 Tucson South East - Green Valley 103373, 73-19, 57.3% McCain. Racially motivated carveout.
26 Nogales - Sahuarita - Summit 98927, 30-63, 57.0% Obama. Though Native population is recorded as just 4.5%, the DRA figure is for non-Hispanic Native. The district includes San Xavier and Pascua Yaqui - and I think most or all of that 1/4 Hispanics at Pascua are Native Americans. Yaquis are not the only Arizona Native Peoples to sometimes do that, either.



27 North West Maricopa - La Paz - South Yavapai 98009, 68-24, 65.9% McCain
28 Goodyear - Litchfield Park 97912, 56w-30h-7b, 58.4% McCain
29 El Mirage 100026, 59w-29h-6b, 55.5% McCain. Can someone tell me what the areas west of El Mirage and south of Sun City West are actually called? Black presence round these parts is military.
30 Sun City 103783, 85-10, 59.9% McCain
31 Peoria North - Vistancia 94952, 82-10, 65.5% McCain
32 Peoria 99652, 67-24, 58.3% McCain
33 Glendale North 103656, 69-20, 58.8% McCain. Though the furthest north parts are missing.
34 Glendale South 101963, 57h-29w-8b, 53.1% Obama
35 Phoenix West End 95797, 67h-30w-7b, 54.6% Obama
36 Phoenix Cartwright 97532, 12-81, 65.4% Obama
37 Phoenix Fowler - Tolleson - Avondale 100562, 67h-19w-9b, 63.5% Obama
38 Phoenix Laveen 97954, 58h-20w-15b, 67.3% Obama
39 Phoenix Encanto Park - Riverside 95517, 65h-24w-7b, 72.2% Obama
40 Phoenix Indian School - Cielito Park 96942, 62h-25w-6b, 65.0% Obama. I didn't magically carve up a Black community here or anything; Phoenix Blacks are just this dispersed across the Hispanic-dominated parts of the city.
41 Phoenix Alhambra 102038, 49h-34w-7b, 52.0% Obama. Impossible to draw yet another Hispanic VAP majority (or even close) district here in what's already the north side of town, even when shoring up with some south side precincts. Content with a solid plurality and a mostly compact shape.
42 Phoenix Cactus Park 95168, 64-25, 56.7% McCain
43 Phoenix Adobe - Thunderbird Park 97711, 77w-12h-5a, 62.0% McCain. Thunderbird Park represents the Glendale bit.
44 Phoenix Cave Buttes - Currys Corner 98273, 81-10, 60.2% McCain
45 Phoenix Lookout Mountain 101923, 66-25, 54.1% McCain
46 Phoenix Sunnyslope 98415, 69-21, 49.8% McCain
47 Phoenix Paradise Valley 98143, 83-9, 59.0% McCain. The suburb of that name and most of the Phoenix area of that name to the north. Not going to say it twice am I? Also, I guess it's clear now why the new Arizona 9 is that particular shape.
48 Phoenix Camelback - Piestewa Peak 99699, 59-31, 51.2% Obama, R avg
49 Phoenix Airport 96184, 63h-17w-15b, 73.9% Obama. That's got to be the most downtown major airport in the universe. And that probably explains a lot about Maricopa's effed-up settlement pattern. Combines populated areas on either side of the airport.
50 Phoenix Ahwatukee - Guadalupe, 95181, 64w-18h-7b-6n, 50.7% Obama, R avg. That's non-Hispanic Native - of course. Guadalupe is a city, not a reservation, but it's a center of Yaqui settlement nonetheless.

51 Scottsdale 99794, 79-14, 51.1% McCain. Old Scottsdale, that is.
52 Fountain Hills - Taliesin 96881, 88-5, 59.1% McCain. The lilywhitest part of the state.
53 Cave Creek - Anthem - Salt River 99643, 84w-7h-5n, 66.3% McCain. Fort McDowell Yavapai is much smaller than Salt River.
54 Tempe N - Mesa NW 101456, 54w-29h-6b-5a, 57.8% Obama
55 Tempe S 96015, 65w-19h-6b-5a, 53.8% Obama
56 Mesa N, 100130, 70-22, 65.4% McCain
57 Mesa W, 103800, 43-46 (Anglo VAP plurality), 50.4% McCain. Best I could do... and carving out those White areas near Tempe in order to add more suburban Hispanics actually flipped the district to McCain. That was before I decided to put the carved-out bit into a Tempe-based district.
58 Mesa S 95871, 76-17, 62.7% McCain
59 Mesa E 98362, 78-16, 62.2% McCain
60 Gilbert E 103533, 73w-15h-5a, 64.8% McCain
61 Gilbert W 96582, 72w-16h-6a, 61.0% McCain
62 Chandler NW 104659, 62w-22h-7a, 50.6% McCain
63 Chandler SE 104634, 58w-25h-9a, 54.8% McCain. Took a bit of searching to find an alignment that looked good and kept both within tolerance.
64 Queens Creek - Chandler Heights - Sun Lakes 99683, 77-13, 64.0% McCain

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28 district Utah.
Hispanics over 5% everywhere, in sufficient concentration to draw an opportunity district nowhere.

1 Cache (bulk) - Rich 101180, 86-10, 69.8% McCain
2 Box Elder - Nort Ogden - Hyman 100727, 89-8, 77.0% McCain
3 Ogden 96919, 68-26, 54.6% McCain. Odd design to the northwest avoids a municipal split. (It also shores up McCain a little, but that's life.)
4 Roy 97298, 84-11, 64.6% McCain.
5 Clearfield 103266, 83-10, 69.8% McCain
6 Layton 101241, 86-9, 71.1% McCain
7 Bountiful 101972, 89-6, 68.5% McCain
8 North East 100342, 86-8, 73.0% McCain. Note the split of Summit County; that removed some hugely Democratic territory.
9 East Millcreek - Holladay - Park City 96363, 87-7, 55.6% Obama
10 Salt Lake City South 99040, 75-15, 67.7% Obama. And South Salt Lake.
11 Salt Lake City North 100042, 58-28-8 asian, 68.7% Obama
12 Tooele - Magna - Salt Lake City West 95501, 74-19, 57.3% McCain. Not much of the city, thankfully.
13 West Valley City North 95729, 53-34-9 asian, 50.6% Obama
14 West Valley City South - Kearny - Taylorsville West 94604, 74-19, 57.3% McCain
15 Murray - Taylorsville East 99866, 77-14, 49.6% Obama
16 West Jordan West - Harriman 98869, 78-15, 61.1% McCain. Yeah, I know. Bit awkward.
17 West Jordan East - Midvale - Cottonwood Heights 94061, 78-15, 50.2% McCain. Ditto. But it kept splits down and enabled a very nice map to the south.
18 Sandy 97627, 86-8, 55.4% McCain
19 South Jordan - Riverton - Bluffdale 96874, 89-6, 69.4% McCain
20 Lehi - Draper 100242, 88-7, 72.3% McCain. Across the county line.
21 American Fork - Alpine 95508, 90-6, 81.4% McCain
22 Orem 98508, 79-15, 77.6% McCain. And Lindon.
23 Provo 100856, 80-13, 73.5% McCain
24 Spanish Fork - Springville - Provo South 96706, 84-12, 77.2% McCain
25 Sanpete - Juab - Payson - Eagle Mountain 103344, 87-9, 76.7% McCain
26 South East 93783, 82-9 navajo-7, 64.8% McCain. Welcome to Utah. Nobody actually lives here.
27 South West 103606, 88-8, 75.2% McCain
28 Saint George 99804, 84-11, 76.1% McCain

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1 Carson City - Douglas 102271, 76w-17h, 52.6% McCain
2 Reno S - Verdi - Incline Village 103418, 75w-16h-6a, 50.7% Obama, R avg
3 Reno C 104689, 60w-27h-6a, 63.7% Obama
4 Reno N - Sun Valley - Spanish Springs 101925, 66w-23h, 54.3% Obama, R avg
5 Sparks 97284, 62w-26h-6a, 55.4% Obama

6 Rural West 95170, 79w-13h, 58.2% McCain.
As implied but not shown in the map, includes Esmeralda, but not points south. Note that both rural districts carve into Washoe - while preventable, it was a tradeoff for a clearer west vs north divide.
7 Rural North 95234, 70w-21h-5n, 65.5% McCain.
Includes all the unmapped areas except Nye and Lincoln Counties.
8 Boulder City - Pahrump - Rural South 103074, 79w-14h, 58.0% McCain.
The mother of all donuts, includes outer Clark County, Nye and Lincoln. That big precinct at the northwest corner of this map extends to the county line, but has 5000 inhabitants mostly or all living at the Las Vegas end, where it's part of the built-up area.



9 Henderson E 99442, 69w-17h, 50.4% Obama, R avg
10 Henderson SW 99914, 72w-11h-10a, 49.6% McCain
11 Henderson NW - Paradise E 97719, 61w-21h-8a, 57.1% Obama
12 Paradise W - Winchester 103813, 44h-33w-11b-9a, 69.3% Obama
13 Paradise S 102587, 55w-20h-14a-7b, 59.0% Obama
14 Enterprise 100277, 48w-23a-17h-7b, 58.7% Obama.
15 Spring Valley W 96794, 49w-21a-17h-8b, 60.0% Obama
16 Spring Valley E 101587, 49w-24h-14a-10b, 58.5% Obama. All three districts have a White VAP majority.
17 Las Vegas E 96012, 64h-21w-10b, 73.4% Obama
18 Las Vegas C 99957, 47h-34w-10b-6a, 66.3% Obama. Downtown area mostly in E (or even North Las Vegas S), actually.
19 Las Vegas Summerlin 97439, 65w-15h-9b-7a, 54.0% Obama
20 Las Vegas - The Lakes 99186, 66w-13h-11a-6b, 52.4% Obama, R avg
21 Las Vegas Near NW 100606, 54w-26h-12b-5a, 56.4% Obama. Or whatever you want to call it.
22 Las Vegas Outer NW 103912, 64w-15h-10b-6a, 49.7% Obama, R avg
23 North Las Vegas N, 104197, 43w-26h-17b-9a, 63.4% Obama
24 North Las Vegas S, 98182, 57h-25b-13w, 84.9% Obama
25 Sunrise Manor W, 96390, 57h-24w-11b, 70.2% Obama
26 Sunrise Manor E - Nellis, 103857, 36h-35w-16b-8a, 63.4% Obama. White VAP plurality.
27 East Las Vegas 95615, 40w-38h-10b-8a, 66.7% Obama

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Hawai'i. 14 districts.
Fun to draw. Would need much higher tolerance in order not to draw ugly cross-island districts though.
Racial format is Asian - White - Other - Hispanic for all districts, though Hispanic is below 5.0 in two of them (but rounds up). Blacks peak at 4.2% in one of the military districts.

That is according to the DRA. I just learned something about the DRA that I'd never have noticed without opening Hawai'i. I knew, of course, that it's racial categories other than Hispanic are for Non-Hispanic X Only respondents. However, the DRA's Other category does not consist, as I always thought, of Non-Hispanic Some Other Race Only plus Non-Hispanic Two or More Races plus Non-Hispanic Pacific Islander, but only the first two. Pacific Islander Onlies (9.5% of Hawai'i's population) are instead collated with Asian Onlies. This gets particularly bizarre because the 4.7% of Hawai'is population who are Asian and Pacific Islander but no third race are not included but instead summed as Other.

Now Hawai'i is 38% Asian (47% according to DRA), 23% White, 9.5% Pacific Islander, 9% Hispanic, 1.5% Black and 19% all sorts of mixes (4.7% A-PI like Dan Akaka, 4.2% A-W, 2.5% W-PI like Tulsi Gabbard, 6.3% all three, etc pp.)

So, summary for the quick reader: "Asian" is pure Asian or pure Pacific Islander, a category that makes no sense whatsoever. "Other" is, basically, Non-Hispanic Mixed Race.

Also, remember how hugely well Obama did when contemplating the presidential figures.



Hawai'i E 96762, 37-25-25-12, 79.0% Obama. More Whites than Mixeds.
Hawai'i W - Maui E - Lana'i 93738, 29-37-22-11, 73.3% Obama. Including Lana'i here helped prevent an insensible split of Maui.
Maui N 92657, 42-26-21-10, 79.4% Obama
Koko Head - Waimanalo - Moloka'i - Maui W 100380, 37-35-19-8, 70.4% Obama. Yeah, I know this crosses a well-defined line on O'ahu. But you really need to draw the island from the populated part of the interior, which opens south to Pearl Harbor, and this is what that gets you.
Kailua - Kane'ohe Bay 101893, 33-32-25-9, 68.9% Obama
Honolulu East 99812, 56-23-16-5, 71.7% Obama
Honolulu Capitol - Manoa 96803, 60-20-14-5, 73.1% Obama
Honolulu Harbor - Punchbowl 99301, 71-9-14-5, 71.6% Obama. The named divisions are because the centre of town is split, basically.
Honolulu West - Halawa Heights 95481, 54-20-13-8, 71.0% Obama
Pearl City - Waimalu - Village Park 96615, 58-13-18-8, 71.0% Obama
Mililani Town - Wahiawa 95630, 43-22-20-11, 67.7% Obama
Waipahu - 'Ewa Beach 92224, 61-11-17-9, 66.6% Obama. Precinct size constraints.
O'ahu W 96103, 42-13-29-14, 67.5% Obama
Kaua'i - O'ahu N 101543, 37-31-21-9, 72.3% Obama

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There appear to be unfindable block groups in Alaska, with a combined population of 14,000 people.
Anyways, Fairbanks North Star Borough would be one district, the Panhandle, Valdez-Cordova, and the southeastern parts of Kenai Peninsula would be the second district, everything else outside of Anchorage including the rural fringes of Mat-Su would be the third district, there would be a Mat-Su district ending just north of Eagle Creek within official Anchorage, a Kenai - SW Anchorage district (there's a ferry somewhere?), and two wholly Anchorage districts one of them also covering Eagle Creek and the military bases.

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1 Scottsbluff 97261, 84w, 12 h, 69.9% McCain
2 North Platte 102615, 85w, 12 h, 70.9% McCain
3 Kearney - Hastings 103603, 91w, 67.8% McCain
4 North Central (no towns of any size here) 99508, 96w, 71.2% McCain
5 Dakota City - Fremont 97729, 80w, 13h, 56.7% McCain
6 Columbus - Norfolk 101291, 83w, 14h, 68.6% McCain
7 Grand Island 101189, 82w, 15h, 66.5% McCain
8 South East (maybe dead0 could find "Beatrice - Nebraska City", but even of that I'd not be too sure) 99017, 92w, 57.3% McCain
9 Lincoln North - Seward 98464, 83w, 49.5% Obama, R avg
10 Lincoln E 99089, 81w, 58.1% Obama
11 Lincoln S 104604, 91w, 52.1% McCain
12 Bellevue 102115, 80w, 56.6% McCain
13 West Sarpy - Plattsmouth 102746, 93w, 59.1% McCain
14 West Douglas 102699, 89w, 60.1% McCain
15 Omaha Millard - Ralston 105266, 87w, 55.4% McCain
16 Omaha West 104559, 83w, 50.8% Obama, R avg
17 Omaha North 104171, 46w, 39b, white VAP majority, 73.7% Obama
18 Omaha South 100415, 54 w, 35 h, 60.1% Obama

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29 district Kansas. Clockwise from Topeka.



1 Topeka W 97045, 85, 53.7% McCain
2 Topeka E 93942, 68w-15h-11b, 54.4% Obama
3 Lawrence 97773, 80, 67.0% Obama

4 Lenexa 99241, 84, 55.9% McCain
5 Olathe 100766, 76w-12h, 55.7% McCain
6 Overland Park S - Spring Hill - Gardner (or just S Johnson for short) 99958, 84, 61.4% McCain
7 Overland Park 99964, 80, 49.5% McCain. Areas snipped to the north and south. 174 votes margin.
8 Merriam - Mission - Prairie Village - Leawood (or just NE Johnson for short) 100670, 87, 49.4% Obama. 14 votes margin!

9 Kansas City W - Shawnee 101933, 71w-15h, 52.1% Obama
10 Kansas City E 96485, 33b-32h-29w, 79.7% Obama. White plurality VAP.



11 whatever you want to call this; Miami, Franklin, Osage, Coffee and Linn Counties and Edgerton from Johnson County to bring it within tolerance. 95998, 94, 63.0% McCain
12 Crawford, Bourbon, Cherokee, Labette 97513, 89, 55.0% McCain. They all have their semi-sizable town.
13 Chanute - Coffeyville - Eureka 9 counties, 99412, 89, 66.1% McCain
14 Emporia - El Dorado 5 1/2 counties, 94862, 85, 61.0% McCain. Had to do a fine cut of Butler to keep within tolerance.
15 Sumner, Cowley, S Butler 93577, 88, 64.8% McCain. This is 4804 below quota.



16 Wichita E - Oaklawn 101600, 68w-10b, 54.5% McCain
17 Wichita C 95972, 37w-27h-26b, 69.0% Obama
18 Wichita W 100824, 75w-15h, 54.9% McCain
19 Wichita S - Derby 98413, 83, 61.2% McCain
20 Wichita NW - Park City 101552, 86, 66.4% McCain

21 Hutchinson - Newton (or Reno - Harvey if you use county names) 99188, 86, 59.6% McCain

22 Dodge City, 15 counties, 96268 haven't gotten the hell out of Dodge yet, 74w-22h, 70.8% McCain
23 Welwyn - Vegetarian Garden City - Liberal 10 counties, 95678, 52w-43h, 73.3% McCain. You wouldn't think it would you? The Hispanic percentage, especially. With some creative mapping and a carveup of Dodge, you could probably get a majority. This is Agrobusiness Country.
24 Hays - NW Kansas 21 counties, 99249, 92, 75.2% McCain. Hays is by far the largest town but it's also on the edge of the district.
25 Great Bend - Russell - McPherson 7 counties, 93876, 90, 70.5% McCain
26 Salina 5 counties, 99519, 88, 66.7% McCain

27 Manhattan - Junction City 103164, 73w-10b, 52.8% McCain
28 Atchison - Marysville 9 counties and a bit of Riley, 103266, 91, 65.8% McCain. Took fine balancing - 4885 over quota.

29 Leavenworth ( - Jefferson) 95353, 83, 55.7% McCain

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New Mexico. 21 districts. 2 figures is Anglo-Hispanic, 3 is Anglo-Hispanic-Native.


Rio Rancho - Bernalillo (the town), 98222, 51-40, 51.5% Obama, R avg
Albuquerque North - Los Ranchos - Corrales, 99999 (lol), 45-47 (Anglo VAP plurality), 60.4% Obama
Albuquerque North West ("Petroglyph" if you want named divisions), 101872, 30-61, 62.5% Obama
Albuquerque South West ("Five Points - Los Padillas"? Much of this is actually outside city limits) 97607, 14-80, 71.7% Obama
Albuquerque North East ("Paseo del Norte"), 97108, 63-26, 50.8% McCain
Albuquerque East Central ("Nob Hill - Uptown"), 95232, 55-33, 67.3% Obama
Albuquerque South East ("Manzano Hills"?) - East Bernalillo, 97435, 58-30, 51.3% Obama, R avg
Albuquerque South ("Old Town") - Isleta - Peralta, 95942, 28-58-7, 71.9% Obama. Isleta Pueblo. Sorry for that, the next district had to lose population, Albquerque had to pick up some, and the Isleta are totally in the way.
Valencia (bulk) - Cibola - Zuni, one county and parts of three more, 97965, 29-47-21, 59.9% Obama. Acoma, Laguna, Zuni, and the Ramah and Canoncito Navajo enclaves (the latter is why the cut into Bernalillo)
Navajoland (part on the cool side of the stateline), part of two counties, 94713, 10-11-77, 68.2% Obama
Farmington, 98308, 54-24-19, 68.8% McCain. Loads of Navajo in this natural ressources town just offrez, obviously.
Silver City - Deming - Socorro, five whole counties, 93082, 46-49 (Anglo VAP majority), 54.5% Obama, R avg

Ahem. What is this heresy of splitting the West Side to assuage the North Valley? That light green district is an abomination before the Zia symbol! There might as well be a damn wall between the North Valley and the West Side given how radically their interests diverge - free the West Side!

I played around with Albuquerque a long time, and a lot of my maps were worse than that one.
The West Side doesn't fit into two districts, there needs to be one cross-river district. Or maybe one could draw some areas on the far West Side into a mostly non-metropolitan district and add Edgewood to the southeastern district or something.
One thing that does work - that I had in most early drafts before deciding that changing it made things easier in Bernalillo County - is a Rio Rancho-Corrales district instead of the Rio Rancho-Bernalillo shown here.

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Listed minorities from 5% on up. Northern Minnesota needs some extra county splits to make any sense.

1 Duluth 100135, 90, 67.7% Obama. Includes the suburban municipalities of Hermantown, Proctor and Midway.
2 Carlton - Aitkin - Lake Superior 102372, 93, 58.7% Obama
3 Iron Range 103529, 95, 61.5% Obama
4 Bemidji - Reservations 101848, 77-18n, 51.6% Obama
5 Brainerd 103931, 96, 54.6% McCain
6 Northwest Minnesota 95079, 93, 49.7% Obama
7 Fargo - Detroit Lakes 98881, 92, 50.4% Obama
8 Alexandria - Fergus Falls 95441, 96, 53.1% McCain
9 Little Falls 100429, 94, 54.7% McCain. Leftovers district. Might be better to list counties seeing it's composed of four whole ones (Morrison, Todd, Mille Lacs, Kanabec)
10 Sherburne - Benton 98058, 95, 59.2% McCain. His best result in the state.
11 Saint Cloud 103664, 87-6b, 51.0% Obama. Includes the suburban municipalities of Sartell, Sauk Rapids, Waite Park and Le Sauk, is in three counties like the city is, and is technically noncontiguous because the city is towards the southwest and I didn't want to split another municipality (couldn't cover it whole).
12 Stearns - Pope - Stevens 96591, 95, 55.4% McCain
13 Willmar 103493, 90-7h, 50.0% McCain
14 Southwest Minnesota 98786, 92, 50.4% McCain. What else can you call this? (The ugly beigegreen that DRA calls olive.)
15 New Ulm - Fairmont - Worthington 101275, 87-10h, 52.7% McCain
16 Mankato 104100, 91, 52.4% Obama. Really hard to tell on the map, but does include the city of North Mankato.
17 Nicollet - Le Sueur - Sibley - McLeod 98913, 92-5h, 53.1% McCain
18 Rice - Steele 100718, 87-7h, 51.3% Obama
19 Albert Lea - Austin (yeah yeah I'm going back and forth between towns and counties in names. So sue me) 98280, 89-8h, 56.8% Obama
20 Winona - Houston - South Olmsted 95895, 95, 53.3% Obama
21 Rochester 104220, 79-7a-6b-5h, 53.7% Obama. Excludes the two southernmost precincts which are in 20.
22 Goodhue - Webster - Dodge - North Olmsted 102567, 94, 50.9% McCain



23 South Dakota 96589, 90, 50.0% McCain
24 North Dakota 99074, 78-10h, 57.5% Obama. Eagan and Inver Grove Heights split.
25 Burnsville - Eagan South 97851, 76-8b-7h-6a, 53.7% Obama
26 Lakeville - Apple Valley 105038, 85, 50.4% McCain
27 Scott (excl. Savage) 103017, 85, 55.5% McCain
28 Bloomington (bulk) - Savage 104053, 77-7a-7b-6h, 54.0% Obama
29 Eden Prairie - Minnetonka (bulk - Bloomington NW) 104622, 85-6a, 52.6% Obama
30 Plymouth - New Hope - Minnetonka NE 102946, 80-7b-6a, 54.7% Obama
31 Saint Louis Park - Golden Valley - Robbinsdale - Crystal 101725, 80-9b, 65.6% Obama
32 Edina - Richfield - Hopkins 100760, 75-9h-7b-7a, 59.9% Obama
33 Minneapolis Southwest 97285, 84-5b, 80.3% Obama
34 Minneapolis South 97652, 48-23h-19b, 84.0% Obama. Best in the state. White majority VAP.
35 Minneapolis East 97009, 73-9b-7h-6a, 77.2% Obama. Includes Saint Anthony (portion in Hennepin)
36 Minneapolis North 95937, 39b-37-11a-7h, 82.4% Obama. White plurality VAP, but only district without a White plurality overall in the state. Idea of the Minneapolis map is to keep the lilywhite bits in just two districts and see what can be done, basically.
37 Brooklyn Park (bulk) - Brooklyn Center 100484, 49-25b-15a-8h, 62.5% Obama. White majority VAP.
38 Maple Grove - Champlin 97104, 84-6a, 51.4% McCain
39 Lake Minnetonka - NW Hennepin - Saint Michael 96864, 93, 56.6% McCain
40 Carver - Minnetrista 99709, 91, 56.9% McCain
41 Wright (bulk) 98928, 94, 56.9% McCain
42 Isanti - Pine - North Chisago 98586, 93, 53.1% McCain
43 Northeast Anoka - North Washington - South Chisago 96068, 94, 54.7% McCain. What could you name this district, I wonder?
44 Lake Saint Croix - Oakdale  98582, 88, 52.3% Obama
45 Woodbury - Cottage Grove (bulk - three smaller places) 98080, 80-8a, 52.8% Obama
46 Northwest Anoka 95798, 91, 56.7% McCain
47 Blaine - Lino Lake 99173, 84-6a, 49.4% Obama
48 Coon Rapids - Fridley (bulk) - Columbia Heights 104146, 78-8b-6h, 54.5% Obama
49 Northwest Ramsey 104335, 81-8a-5b, 56.7% Obama
50 Northeast Ramsey 104714, 82-8a, 54.9% Obama
51 Saint Paul North 101643, 31-28a-24b-12h, 78.7% Obama. Quite a lot of Asians here. Gerried, of course.
52 Saint Paul South & East 100665, 62-12b-12h-11a, 71.7% Obama. And that southern tail of Maplewood.
53 Saint Paul West 97283, 79-9b, 74.7% Obama

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1 Davenport 103931, 77-10b-7h, 61.7% Obama. Includes Buffalo township
2 Bettendorf - Muscatine 104043, 87-8h, 52.0% Obama
3 Burlington 100639, 89, 56.8% Obama
4 Ottumwa 96728, 92, 51.4% Obama
5 Iowa City 101200, 80-6a-6b-5h, 72.7% Obama. Includes Coralville and North Liberty
6 Donut No.1 96746, 95, 53.3% Obama
7 Cedar Rapids S 105143, 87-6b, 65.8% Obama. Includes the bulk of the city, and areas on the right bank of the Cedar River outside it.
8 Marion - Cedar Rapids N 106083, 92, 54.7% Obama
9 Clinton 98598, 94, 59.3% Obama. Extends to Dubuque city limits.
10 Dubuque 102421, 93, 58.6% Obama
11 North East Iowa (what else do you call these six counties?) 104940, 96, 58.7% Obama
12 Mason City 101035, 94, 57.2% Obama
13 Waterloo 105691, 81-11b, 62.1% Obama. Includes the large suburb of Cedar Falls except for the one precinct on the left bank of the Cedar River.
14 Donut No.2 97486, 96, 51.9% Obama
15 Fort Dodge 96726, 92, 50.3% Obama
16 Marshalltown 103405, 87-9h, 53.6% Obama
17 Newton - Marion - Mahaska 98711, 95, 51.4% McCain. Had to go by counties here. Also includes three townships of Polk County.
18 Ames 97685, 88-6a, 55.6% Obama. Includes six townships of Polk County.
19 Ankeny - Johnston - Altoona 99296, 93, 50.8% McCain. Northern suburbs of Des Moines.
20 Des Moines North East 100288, 60-17h-14b-6a, 68.9% Obama. Includes everything on the left bank of the Des Moines River and also everything right by the river on the right bank. This happens (give or take a couple of precincts for cleaner lines) to also be the best minorities-concentrating gerrymander possible without excising the far northeast of the city.
21 Des Moines South West 103125, 80-8h-6b, 64.8% Obama. Interesting that 20 points fewer Whites makes so little difference to presidential results.
22 West Des Moines - Urbandale 102060, 87-5h, 50.8% Obama. The southwest corner of Polk County.
23 six counties and three remaining townships southeast of Des Moines 106500, 95, 50.0% McCain. Yes, that's within tolerance - 4955 above the ideal. Iowa was very close to another district.
24 Dallas - Boone - Greene 101777, 91, 49.8% McCain
25 South West Iowa 99818, 96, 53.2% McCain. 10 1/2 counties.
26 Council Bluffs 103115, 90-6h, 50.9% McCain
27 what do you call these eight counties between Sioux City and Council Bluffs? 97808, 93-5h, 50.5% McCain
28 or these eight counties east of the northwest corner district? 105985, 90-7h, 50.7% McCain
29 North West Iowa 103203, 93-5h, 69.0% McCain. Ye who follow this thread are demography buffs and know this. But it's amazing nonetheless. The Gereformeerde enclave.
30 Sioux City 102172, 78-14h, 49.6% McCain. Finally a district coterminous with a county.

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Missouri. 60 districts. DRA provides "averages" in addition to Obama-McCain figures, but though marginally more democratic overall and disagreeing with presidential to varying degrees they flip only two districts. Sort of an S-shape to the numbering.

Hannibal (6 counties) 98206, 91, 58.8% McCain
North East Missouri (11 counties. If you want a placename Kirkville is largest - not that that's saying, well, anything - and is fairly central) 100167, 94, 56.1% McCain
North West Missouri (a further 10 counties. Why exactly is North Missouri so empty? How is it different from Iowa just to the north?) 98614, 94, 60.6% McCain

Saint Joseph 98274, 87, 50.4% McCain
Platte - South Buchanan 97540, 85-5b, 53.0% McCain



Kansas City North West - Gladstone 97849, 78-8h-8b, 52.9% Obama
Kansas City North East - Liberty - Kearney 97838, 88, 52.6% McCain
North Clay - Richmond - Carrollton (I guess that'll do for a name) 97039, 95, 54.8% McCain

Kansas City Central 97307, 45b-25w-24h, 88.1% Obama
Kansas City South West 98788, 73-15b-7h, 67.7% Obama
Kansas City South East 96439, 65b-25w-5h, 86.2% Obama

Grandview - Raytown - Lee's Summit South - Little Blue Valley 104630, 68-22b-5h, 54.2% Obama. Yeah, effectively (not technically) touchpoint contiguity at that one point in the Blue Parkway; Grandview and Raytown are both democratic inner suburbs with some Black presence, seemingly quite unlike anything further in or further out, and two ribbon constituencies just wouldn't have done them justice. There were also population constraints in eastern Jackson unless I wanted to randomly enlarge the KC seats. (The Little Blue Valley area east of Raytown is technically part of the city but...)
Lee's Summit North - Blue Springs 104320, 84-7b, 53.7% McCain
Independence (bulk of) 102238, 82-8h-5b, 51.8% Obama
East Jackson - Lafayette 103817, 91, 56.0% McCain

Cass 99478, 90, 59.2% McCain. Coterminous with county.

Boonville - Moberly - Centralia (if you want a name. Five counties and more-populated-than-it-looks bit of Boone, including the town of Centralia.) 101098, 89-5b, 58.7% McCain
Columbia West 98712, 79-9b-5a, 59.0% Obama. Includes the bulk of the city.
Columbia East - Callaway 99300, 86-8b, 52.4% McCain

Jefferson City 99044, 87-9b, 64.1% McCain. Missouri's state government remains a mystery to me. Is it really elsewhere with just the Governor's Mansion and legislative chambers parked here in the middle of nowhere?
Warren - Lincoln - Montgomery 97315, 94, 55.6% McCain



Harvester - Weldon Spring - Dardenne (or just Saint Charles South West. But as two to three placenames work better everywhere else in St Louis and St Charles Counties...) 97109, 90, 58.4% McCain
O'Fallon - Wentzville 99328, 90, 55.2% McCain
Saint Peters 96459, 90, 52.7% McCain

Saint Charles - Maryland Heights 100873, 81-8b, 52.3% Obama. Crossbridge district.

Florissant - Hazelwood - Bridgeton 104242, 67-26b, 62.5% Obama
Spanish Lake - Bellefontaine 96483, 69b-27w, 82.9% Obama
Jennings - Ferguson - Saint John (third name picked at random from the several small places by the airport) 96036, 71b-23w, 87.1% Obama
University City - Overland - Hamilton Heights 102836, 59b-34w, 85.9% Obama. Hamilton Heights being a city neighborhood. City's just barely too large to fit three districts, and I shored up the Black majority here... though that also meant that one Black, one White, one Mixed (the obvious setup for Saint Louis) came out Whites ahead in VAP in the mixed district.

Saint Louis North 98100, 85b-11w, 95.7% Obama. And that's not a maxpack.
Saint Louis South East 100015, 45b-42w-6h, 86.0% Obama. White plurality (and nearish a majority) on VAP.
Saint Louis South West 101070, 79-10b, 67.7% Obama

Oakville - Mehlville - Lemay 95546, 93, 52.4% McCain, D avg
Affton - Crestwood 97611, 92, 51.5% Obama
Webster Groves - Brentwood - Ladue 98040, 82-9b-5a, 60.1% Obama
Kirkwood - Creve Coeur 103709, 83-6a-6b, 50.3% Obama
Chesterfield - Wildwood 103969, 88-6a, 61.7% McCain

Ballwin - Castlewood - High Ridge 104035, 90, 53.9% McCain. Crosses into Jefferson.

North East Jefferson 99498, 95, 50.5% Obama. If you wanna go by placenames, one is Arnold but nothing really suggests for the second.
South Jefferson 102507, 96, 51.0% Obama



Franklin (bulk) - Gasconade 98308, 96, 57.0% McCain
5 counties - bit of Franklin 97849, 96, 53.6% McCain, barest of bare D avg's. Franklin County could have fit into a district of its own, but then what to do with Gasconade? Putting it with Jefferson City instead of Maries is barely too large. Putting it all into this lime leftovers district that is ugly even as is is incredibly ugly - and barely too small to boot. (Though you could draft in Shannon, not necessary in the district it's in and not too bad a fit here either.) This map does ugly things to the iron country around St Francois / Iron / Washington even as is.
Saint Francois - Sainte Genevieve - Perry 102475, 95, 52.2% McCain. It's all the fault of Perry County. One fifth of the district produces all the McCain victory margin (plus 117 votes more) and cancels out the not-so-tiny D avg lead (and goes about 349 votes beyond that). And really, really belongs with places to the South culturally, historically etc. But damn me if I can find a way to make the map of South East Missouri, which works very well without it, to work with it. It's no go. So this ugly map that's rural-Dems-shafting to boot it is.

Cape Girardeau 97476, 90-6b, 66.5% McCain
Bootheel - Sikeston 100952, 77-18b, 58.3% McCain
Poplar Bluff (though really, I guess, you'd be better off listing the four counties: Butler - Stoddard - Wayne - Bollinger) 98646, 94, 67.5% McCain

7 Ozark Counties 103494, 96, 62.7% McCain
Webster - Wright - Texas - Dent 96682, 95, 65.9% McCain
Phelps - Pulaski 97430, 81-7b-6h, 61.7% McCain. Fort Leonard Wood, in case you're wondering about the demographics.

Lake of the Ozarks 101296, 96, 63.3% McCain
Pettis - Johnson - North West Benton 101871, 88, 57.9% McCain. There's an Air Force Base here.

7 counties between Joplin and Kansas City. "Truman", if you're an Australian. 104552, 95, 61.8% McCain

Joplin 103030, 85-7h, 65.1% McCain
Newton - McDonald - Outer Jasper 95571, 87-6h, 69.3% McCain

Laclede etc pp 98009, 95, 64.4% McCain. Dip into Greene is for this district's benefit, Greene map could have been drawn without it.
East Greene 101583, 92, 61.8% McCain. Includes some areas on the eastern and southern edge of the city of Springfield.
Springfield (bulk) 100976, 85-5b, 51.8% Obama. Entirely within city limits.
South West Greene - Nixa 103220, 93, 64.1% McCain. Nixa being a suburb in Christian County.
Taney - Christian (bulk) 102539, 93, 68.1% McCain. Dip into Stone County covers Branson West. Should just be called "Branson", I guess.
Barry - Lawrence - Stone (bulk) 97489, 91-6h, 67.4% McCain.