US House Redistricting: Connecticut

[minionofmidas]

Clearly, what Connecticut needs is this.



32.8% Hispanic, 32.3% White, 28.6% Black.

[minionofmidas]

The thing is, what with just how decaying Connecticut's inner cities are and how concentrated the state's minorities are there... there'd actually be something of a point. Though, of course, the random connectors between the cities are outrageously stupid, should be replaced with whiter parts of the cities themselves for a noncontiguous seat (that would be marginally less white than this monster.)

[minionofmidas]

And more seats. (Though I suppose the argument above doesn't really hold for the federal congress anyways. Now... if CT's inner cities were dispersed among seats dominated by their democratic non-poor inner suburbs in the CT State House... we'd be onto something.)

[minionofmidas]

I drew this ages ago as what seemed most reasonable. I don't know the state well enough to be sure, but I do believe the oddities (here kinked out) of the CD1-CD5 boundary serve to help Republicans in CD5.

[minionofmidas]

And I seem to recall the consensus that Dems sold out in that redistricting compromise.

The app still doesn't include partisan figures from the state, does it? I really need to test what cleaning up the fifth-to-first boundary actually does.

[minionofmidas]

And given where those incumbents lived (New Britain and Danbury), forced CT-05's strange shape and the bizarreness that is the western boundary of CT-01.

And suddenly it all made... well, not sense, exactly, but you know what I mean.