US House Redistricting: Kansas

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Back when Kansas had 3 districts, one district did run east to west across the state.

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Is it possible to go south of Wichita to connect western and SE Kansas?

As they've had to come east, they've gone north of Wichita rather than splitting Wichita, and they've had to keep going further east to make room for the Wichita district.

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Hey, as an aside, I "found" a Minneapolis, KS. So now we have Manhattan, Pittsburgh, and Minneapolis. I wonder how many other such towns there are like that in the state. My favorite KS town of course is "Liberal," which isn't "liberal" at all. I wonder what its provenance is.

If this is a go, I will email it to the Speaker, with the screen shot and the drf file. He will probably think I am a pretty obsessive creative (obviously true), and laugh, but what the heck. If you want your name associated with any of this as a fellow state legislator lending "gravitas" to this all, let me know.

Are the plans named after famous politicians or just code names (like if you were naming the prototype of an OS or Iphone?

Ruth_Ann_and_Lynn

Bois_D_Arc

Baxter_Springs

Or maybe based on the Final Four being tonight:

Phog_Allen

James_Naismith (Kansan who invented basketball)

Wilt_Chamberlain (KU basketball player with wing-span as wide as KS-1)

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The Geary exception to that principle is carried over from the current map. I didn't change the boundary there.

Ah yes. For some reason they split both Geary and Nemeha 10 years ago.

Mostly it's Fort Riley, though I'm not sure all the populated smaller-area precincts are within the Fort? Anyways, the Fort as a CoI is split anyhow.

The Department of Defense doesn't like the Census Bureau to show where the population is.

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That is prohibited under federal law.

It is mandated under federal law when a State loses representation.  This has been affirmed by the US Supreme Court.

In a case like Kansas, where the existing districts do not comply with one man one vote, it would be more reasonable for a federal court to impose at large election which was affirmed by Wesberry v Sanders as complying with OMOV, rather than a federal court usurping legislative prerogatives.

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Court has heard testimony for a couple of days, will likely draw its own Senate and Federal maps from scratch. (Though the Senate never voted on the House map, everyone agrees it's basically fine.)

You know what happened to the last Yarbrough who was elected don't you?

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Court has heard testimony for a couple of days, will likely draw its own Senate and Federal maps from scratch. (Though the Senate never voted on the House map, everyone agrees it's basically fine.)

You know what happened to the last Yarbrough who was elected don't you?

Let's put the jam on the lower shelf? His name was Yarb-O-rough.

Don Yarbrough