South Shore of Massachusetts

[Strudelcutie4427]

I used to live in Braintree so I know the area well. It's exactly how you said, mainly wealthy towns swung towards the democrats this year while the poorer ones trended republican. The NE part of the south shore is extremely well off (Hingham, Scituate, Norwell, and Cohasset) same with duxbury a little further down. Braintree and Weymouth are beginning to feel the effects of Boston expanding through Quincy and yuppies moving in. The towns that trended republican are either working class like Rockland and Whitman or just rural like Halifax Hanson Carver and Plympton. All in all though I think Hingham Hull and Cohasset were the only towns to vote over 55% dem, which is why the south shore doesn't have its own congressional district and is kinda chopped between 3

[Strudelcutie4427]

I used to live in Braintree so I know the area well. It's exactly how you said, mainly wealthy towns swung towards the democrats this year while the poorer ones trended republican. The NE part of the south shore is extremely well off (Hingham, Scituate, Norwell, and Cohasset) same with duxbury a little further down. Braintree and Weymouth are beginning to feel the effects of Boston expanding through Quincy and yuppies moving in. The towns that trended republican are either working class like Rockland and Whitman or just rural like Halifax Hanson Carver and Plympton. All in all though I think Hingham Hull and Cohasset were the only towns to vote over 55% dem, which is why the south shore doesn't have its own congressional district and is kinda chopped between 3

The South Shore doesn't have enough people to support its own congressional district anyways, and a district centered on the area would have to include other places.

South shore + The cape maybe? Not sure the population of any of the towns down there now but I think the cape has over 200k and behaves much like the south shore until you get around the capes elbow in Chatham then it gets very rich liberal heading up to Truro and ptown

[Strudelcutie4427]

I used to live in Braintree so I know the area well. It's exactly how you said, mainly wealthy towns swung towards the democrats this year while the poorer ones trended republican. The NE part of the south shore is extremely well off (Hingham, Scituate, Norwell, and Cohasset) same with duxbury a little further down. Braintree and Weymouth are beginning to feel the effects of Boston expanding through Quincy and yuppies moving in. The towns that trended republican are either working class like Rockland and Whitman or just rural like Halifax Hanson Carver and Plympton. All in all though I think Hingham Hull and Cohasset were the only towns to vote over 55% dem, which is why the south shore doesn't have its own congressional district and is kinda chopped between 3

The South Shore doesn't have enough people to support its own congressional district anyways, and a district centered on the area would have to include other places.

South shore + The cape maybe? Not sure the population of any of the towns down there now but I think the cape has over 200k and behaves much like the south shore until you get around the capes elbow in Chatham then it gets very rich liberal heading up to Truro and ptown

Maybe this could work?

This district has the South Shore + the Cape + most of the rest of Plymouth County (besides Brockton, Marion, and Mattapoisett) + Acushnet and Freetown. The district has a "natural" feeling look to it and doesn't look like it is the product of gerrymandering.

That looks great!!! Way better than the ridiculous set up of 4/8/9 rn. Under your set up it would be easy to give Bristol county a district rather than stick it in with that arm up to Kennedy in Brookline who probably doesn't represent Bristol well at all

[Strudelcutie4427]

I'm sure in the next few decades MA Dems in the State Legislature will give the GOP one Congressional District. The Southern Shore Congressional District is the most Republican Congressional District in MA at D+4 currently.

I think that'd have to be in 2020 or never. Baker is extremely popular and will probably won reelection so he will be able to veto whatever map the Dems propose. The only real question is are there enough democrats in the legislature that would break with the party to uphold the veto and force a compromise map to be drawn

[Strudelcutie4427]

Not to mention, it's virtually impossible to draw a Republican district in MA anyway, since the Republican voters are fairly spread out throughout the state. I mean, maybe you could make MA-09 a Tilt D rather than Lean D district, but that's about it.

It's possible. Just really ugly. I've drawn a map with 2 with one snaking from Chester around Springfield and up to dracut and another one from Braintree down around Brockton then running through Foxboro out to around Douglas. Like I said ugly as hell. Would post it but idk how to 😂

[Strudelcutie4427]

Not to mention, it's virtually impossible to draw a Republican district in MA anyway, since the Republican voters are fairly spread out throughout the state. I mean, maybe you could make MA-09 a Tilt D rather than Lean D district, but that's about it.

It's possible. Just really ugly. I've drawn a map with 2 with one snaking from Chester around Springfield and up to dracut and another one from Braintree down around Brockton then running through Foxboro out to around Douglas. Like I said ugly as hell. Would post it but idk how to 😂

I guess. But no Democrat has any incentive to agree to that.

You never know. If there's one they don't like they can give him an unfavorable district. McGovern over in Worcester seems like a real douchenozzle

[Strudelcutie4427]

how do i post DRA maps on here? I actually drew a pretty good looking Massachusetts map

[Strudelcutie4427]

how do i post DRA maps on here? I actually drew a pretty good looking Massachusetts map

1) Hit print screen button
2) Either:

• open MSPaint, paste it in there and crop it; go to http://snag.gy and hit CTRL+V to paste/upload
• or go to http://snag.gy and hit CTRL+V to paste/upload whole screengrab

Thank you!! I'm just horrible with figuring that out and have been trying to figure it out for years lol. But here's the map of Massachusetts I made, I tried making as many competitive-ish districts as i could while not gerrymandering
MA-1: D+17
MA-2: D+3
MA-3: D+4
MA-4: D+3
MA-5: D+21
MA-6: D+8
MA-7: D+23
MA-8: D+1
MA-9: D+7