Dave's Redistricting App

[Vepres]

Just started playing around with this. Here's my R gerrymander of Colorado attempt:



CO-1 (Blue): Pretty much unchanged, solid D.

CO-2 (Green): Removed Summit and Eagle counties as well as the few Denver suburbs it had, replaced them with the conservative northeastern part of the state. Still, Boulder is a big place, I'd say swing district with perhaps a slight D lean.

CO-3 (Purple): NE Colorado was given to CO-2, but in its place CO-3 gets the more conservative SW Colorado. This is a slight lean R district.

CO-4 (Red): Lost SW Colorado, but gained the conservative eastern suburbs of Colorado Springs and the lean-R Jackson county. This is a lean R district, only a very strong Democrat could win.

CO-5 (Yellow): This was once strong-R, but given the fact it lost east El Paso and gained Summit and most of Eagle counties, which are liberal. However, it's still lean R.

CO-6 (Teal): Very similar to the original, strong R lean.

CO-7 (Gray): Lost eastern Adams, but relatively unchanged. This is lean D, though not out of reach for Republicans.

So that makes the state 3 Republican, 1 Democrat, and 3 toss-up (or 4R, 2D, 1T if you include leaners).

[Vepres]

Here's my attempt to gerrymander Colorado for the GOP.

[Vepres]

Here's my attempt to gerrymander Colorado for the GOP.

Ok, I now have time to explain this.

CO-1: Basically unchanged, except a small part of the northern suburbs are now in it instead of southern. Strong Democrat.

CO-2: Instead of taking the ski country, this eats up the more liberal parts of the Adams County. Strong Democrat.

CO-3: Takes up the Western part of the state. The conservative and relatively populous Mesa county balances out the ski counties. Lean GOP.

CO-4: Takes up the conservative Larimer and Weld counties, and the conservative eastern plains. It takes half of Pueblo. Lean GOP.

CO-5: Takes half of Pueblo and El Paso County. Strong GOP.

CO-6: Takes the very conservative suburbs in Jefferson County and the conservative Douglas county. Strong GOP.

CO-7: Most of the population is in the conservative southern Denver suburbs. Slight GOP lean.

[Vepres]

Here's my attempt to gerrymander Colorado for the GOP.

Ok, I now have time to explain this.



CO-4: Takes up the eastern part of the state. The conservative and relatively populous Mesa county balances out the ski counties. Lean GOP.

Looks like someone doesn't know east from west

Oops! LOL

[Vepres]

Here's my attempt to gerrymander Colorado for the GOP.

Ok, I now have time to explain this.

CO-1: Basically unchanged, except a small part of the northern suburbs are now in it instead of southern. Strong Democrat.

CO-2: Instead of taking the ski country, this eats up the more liberal parts of the Adams County. Strong Democrat.

CO-3: Takes up the Western part of the state. The conservative and relatively populous Mesa county balances out the ski counties. Lean GOP.

CO-4: Takes up the conservative Larimer and Weld counties, and the conservative eastern plains. It takes half of Pueblo. Lean GOP.

CO-5: Takes half of Pueblo and El Paso County. Strong GOP.

CO-6: Takes the very conservative suburbs in Jefferson County and the conservative Douglas county. Strong GOP.

CO-7: Most of the population is in the conservative southern Denver suburbs. Slight GOP lean.

Fixed

[Vepres]

I noted that there was some discussion of CO a few days ago. I wanted to see how a Hispanic-friendly map might look.





CD 1 was shifted to connect the west side of Denver to Hispanic areas in the primarily northern suburbs. It's just over 50% Hispanic.

CD 3 was shifted to link the counties west of the Divide with the Hispanic areas across the southern part of the state including the most Hispanic parts of Pueblo. It's at 23%, and could be higher if CD 4 bridged the Rockies in the north, allowing more of Pueblo into the district.

I'm sure others will opine as to the political leanings of the districts in the map.

1 and 2 would still be solidly Democratic. 3 would probably remain similar, maybe ever so slightly more GOP (though Salazar would have no trouble holding it). 4 would probably be about as it is now, maybe just slightly more Democratic. 5 and 6 are still strongly Republican. 7 is probably more of a toss-up, though it would probably be closer to lean-Dem.

[Vepres]

7 is definitely Safe D on that map. I'm not sure what you're thinking, Vepres. It contains about half of Denver, and its part of Arapahoe is marginally more Democratic than the whole county. White Denver is not much less Democratic than Hispanic Denver. It's at least 60% Obama.

Oh, I didn't look at it as closely as I should have, I thought it was only southern Denver suburbs, my bad.

[Vepres]

*Note to self: Don't post when very tired*

[Vepres]

Two black majority districts in Alabama (blue and green):