Redistricting Colorado

[Landslide Lyndon]

The guys at Swing State Project continue with their redistricting projects.
This time it's Colorado.




For more information check at http://www.swingstateproject.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=77102DC0A68796A4CA36F5A9CB16EBFA?diaryId=4768

[Holmes]

Silly. They wouldn't turn the Boulder district into a more rural one.

[Brittain33]

Silly. They wouldn't turn the Boulder district into a more rural one.

I think about 25% of that district lives in the Grand Junction area, and most of the rest live in or near Boulder County. Northwest Colorado is pretty thinly populated and Routt County (Steamboat Springs) is a Dem island like many of the mountain ski counties this plan would strip out.

[minionofmidas]

Ugly. I prefer the current map.

[Brittain33]

There's something very Minnesota-rotated-ninety-degrees about this one. In the principles behind its drawing.

The "you can't get there from here" factor in the 2nd district is aggravated.

[muon2]

FWIW I thought we were putting the redistricting threads in the Political Geography/Demographics board.

[jimrtex]

The guys at Swing State Project continue with their redistricting projects.
This time it's Colorado.




For more information check at http://www.swingstateproject.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=77102DC0A68796A4CA36F5A9CB16EBFA?diaryId=4768

Cute move splitting Douglas County into 3 parts so it appears that you are following county lines.

[Brittain33]

Cute move splitting Douglas County into 3 parts so it appears that you are following county lines.

He also split Boulder County, which is a mirror of Douglas in many ways.

[jimrtex]

Cute move splitting Douglas County into 3 parts so it appears that you are following county lines.

He also split Boulder County, which is a mirror of Douglas in many ways.

Longmont has been in the northern district forever.  It probably needed it for the extra population.  It looks like the map makers ignored Broomfield.

[Brittain33]

It looks like the map makers ignored Broomfield.

Isn't it that little hook at the southeastern edge of the 2nd district? Or am I giving too much leeway for clumsiness in drawing?

[jimrtex]

It looks like the map makers ignored Broomfield.

Isn't it that little hook at the southeastern edge of the 2nd district? Or am I giving too much leeway for clumsiness in drawing?

The original city of Broomfield was on the Boulder-Jefferson line just west of Adams, so the part of 7 that goes underneath Broomfield would be in Jefferson County, above the chunk of blue added to the NE  corner of Denver (Arvada? and Wheat Ridge?)  Perhaps the map-maker exaggerated the width of the corridor to make it look more connected.  It also isn't clear what he is doing with the Adams part of Aurora.