Texas, it's bigger than France

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While I hate to contaminate this Texas thread w/NM, this was the most recent thread I could post these in. This is how I would redistrict NM for Congress. One map has precincts (OK, they're Census Bureau and thus a bit old, but...) and one doesn't. I announced the actual plan quite a few months ago, but I didn't feel like finding the thread again.





If they're too big, well, sorry, but I don't know how to resize them.

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Here's a zoomed in look at NM-1:

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Nice work
Most of the Albuquerque inner-metro is in one district and Little Texas isn't split anymore.

Thanks. I stuffed as much of the Albuquerque inner-metro as I could into District 1, but I hit the population limit before I could swoop south into Valencia to pick up the other quasi-suburbs. And I was deliberately trying to keep Little Texas together. I was also trying to put a lot of the Native American Reservations together, and got all but 2 of them in District 3 (D1 and D2 have one each). The Democratic primary fights in D3 would be ferocious.

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Nice work
Most of the Albuquerque inner-metro is in one district and Little Texas isn't split anymore.

Thanks. I stuffed as much of the Albuquerque inner-metro as I could into District 1, but I hit the population limit before I could swoop south into Valencia to pick up the other quasi-suburbs. And I was deliberately trying to keep Little Texas together. I was also trying to put a lot of the Native American Reservations together, and got all but 2 of them in District 3 (D1 and D2 have one each). The Democratic primary fights in D3 would be ferocious.

At least the district would be utterly safe for them. Oh, it already is.
D2 would be ultra-safe Rep I reckon. Would D1 be more or less Dem than it is now?

Yeah, I think D3 becomes even more Dem...actually, I turned it into a minority-majority district, at 38.23% Hispanic, 36.75% White, 22.42% Native American (the rest of the % are very low). Given that these three groups in NM-3 don't get along too well in internal Dem politics...ferocious primaries.
D2 is also a minority-majority district, at 46.36% Hispanic, 48.23% White, 2.06% Black (the rest of the % are very low including the Native Americans). And yeah, it's probably the most Rep district, although I'd bet it has a higher registered Dem % than D1 (which is true in real life as well).
D1 is barely a minority-majority district, at 41.64% Hispanic, 49.18% White, 2.99% Native American, 2.48% Black, 2.01% Asian, and 1.66% 2 or More Races.

As for your political question, I don't know for certain. I actually sent this to someone I know at Research & Polling, Inc., the group who provides official information at redistricting time, but they never got back to me with the registered or voting history %'s. On the other hand, I also sent this to a Rep contact of mine, and he rather liked it, so I would guess NM-1 becomes more Rep, based largely on the woeful Dem performance in middle-class Rio Rancho...but probably still competitive.

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*bump*

Since people are re-redistricting again, here's the thread with my New Mexico redistricting as well as one of jimrtex's Texas plans.