Fair redistricting: Texas

[Dr. MB]

I have a Texas one complete, so I should wait to post it?

[Dr. MB]

South Carolina plan 2 (non-VRA)

My second non-partisan redistricting plan for South Carolina, only 4 counties are split. All districts are Majority White, making this map VRA non-compliant.

District 1 R+3.84 - 48.6 - 50.1
District 2 D+0.2 - 50.6 - 48.4
District 3 R+17.78 - 35.7 - 62.7
District 4 R+17.62 - 35.8 - 62.7
District 5 R+6.46 - 46.9 - 52.0
District 6 R+4.19 - 48.5 - 50.5
District 7 R+6.74 - 47.3 - 51.7

Hmm, I've created a 4-3 map while ignoring VRA?

[Dr. MB]

Here's my plan.

SC-01: R+1
SC-02: R+16
SC-03: R+21
SC-04: R+16
SC-05: R+5
SC-06: D+13
SC-07: R+11

So four safe R districts, one lean R district, one swing district, and one safe D district.

Dist. 6 (the Columbia one) is plurality-black (48%).

There are 6 county splits.

[Dr. MB]

Blue - D+9.89, -2,883
Green - R+8.91, -161
Purple - R+0.68, +226
Red - R+9.82, -238
Yellow - R+12.75, +1,585
Teal - R+19.10, -410
Grey - R+14.73, +1,883

A total of 4 counties are chopped, but only the blue district contains solely whole counties. Blue is also 43.5% BVAP, and is majority-minority, just barely. The rest are majority white.

Why the "arm" near Georgetown?

[Dr. MB]

GA 1: R+16
GA 2: EVEN
GA 3: R+22
GA 4: D+25
GA 5: D+33
GA 6: R+16
GA 7: R+3
GA 8: R+10
GA 9: R+32
GA 10: R+13
GA 11: D+3
GA 12: D+1
GA 13: D+7
GA 14: R+29

Total: 7 R districts, 3 D districts, 4 swing districts

[Dr. MB]

AL-01: R+16
AL-02: R+18
AL-03: R+26
AL-04: R+34
AL-05: R+16
AL-06: EVEN
AL-07: D+7

Colbert+Franklin+Lawrence+the AL counties along the TN border: one CD.

I basically did that, but to get one with low deviation you need to add a couple precincts to a neighboring CD.

[Dr. MB]

1. R+8 (-2432)
2. R+8 (-624)
3. R+17 (2032)
4. D+16 (473) 33% W, 34% B, 21% H
5. D+16 (-876) 34% W, 49% B, 12% H
6. D+30 (1199) 34% W, 55% B
7. R+14 (253)
8. R+10 (-1100)
9. R+30 (2349)
10. R+9 (55)
11. R+21 (-278)
12. R+10 (-1222)
13. D+15 (-1152) 34% W, 52% B
14. R+23 (1326)

4 D seats and 10 R seats in a state that has gone less than 10% republican in 2008, 2012, and 2016? And no competitive seats? And it's not particularly clean either.

Hard pass

You should’ve seen his attempt at a “fair” Pennsylvania map lol.

Also, since I didn’t want to start my own thread, does anyone have a fair Mississippi map (2R-1D-1swing)? If not I guess I’ll make one later

I created one which is two safe R, two D+2, it's only slightly gerrymandered and I'll submit it as one of my two MS maps.

[Dr. MB]

Also, since I didn’t want to start my own thread, does anyone have a fair Mississippi map (2R-1D-1swing)? If not I guess I’ll make one later

ooh I got one, we're not on MS yet tho, but it comes soon we can do it next instead of TN if you want

Yes! That’d be fantastic.

To MB: I don’t know if a D+2 map would pass the VRA test though^^. I think a fair map would make about a D+7ish seat and an R+2ish seat (Obama—>Trump). I’m going to try it out later

I'd have to check, if I remember correctly though both had very narrow BVAP pluralities.

[Dr. MB]

Dist 1 (Blue): BVAP 23.5%, R+17
Dist 2 (Green): BVAP 48.4%, D+2
Dist 3 (Yellow): BVAP 47.5%, D+2
Dist 4 (Red): BVAP 19.1%, R+24

[Dr. MB]

Dist 1: R+24
Dist 2: D+4
Dist 3: R+18
Dist 4: R+21

[Dr. MB]

This is a non-VRA plan by the way.

LA-01: R+26, BVAP 16%
LA-02: D+11, BVAP 40%
LA-03: R+22, BVAP 22%
LA-04: R+10, BVAP 38%
LA-05: R+20, BVAP 27%
LA-06: D+1; BVAP 42%