Dave's Redistricting App

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Does anyone want to take a stab at making a McCain district in New England or a white-majority Obama district in the Deep South.

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officepark, would you mind giving a color key for the New York map.

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officepark, would you mind giving a color key for the New York map.

That's pretty hard, because it's not like I can think of a name for each of the 28 colors. Alright, I'll try.... (by the way, I numbered the districts according to the color key that the program always uses, so for example district 1 is always blue, and the district 1 in the map is blue too).

I meant and/or geographic description. Outside of NYC, they should be identifiable by county.

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I too am working on North Carolina currently, now that they have the partisan data. While voting on the 1st district I noted a majority-black precinct in eastern Greene county that actually voted for McCain.

Maury precinct, 51% black, 42% white, 6% Hispanic, voted for McCain 51-49

Could have some Mississippi type white vote for Obama combined with lower black turnout in that precinct or blacks trending a bit younger.

You also have this

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http://www.doc.state.nc.us/dop/prisons/greene.htm

Also, on a county level, Greene County was 41% black and 46% Obama, which was estimated to be the worst non-black Obama support in NC. Not sure why, aside from what you mentioned above. Eastern NC has a lot of places with sizeable black populations, and very conservative whites, but I wouldn't have expected to be Greene to be dead last.

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BTW, this Dave isn't Dave Leip, is he?

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BTW, this Dave isn't Dave Leip, is he?

No, this is one Dave Bradlee.

Yeah, I thought it wasn't Leip, but some posters have referred to it as "Leip's Redistricting App".

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Are any of the following possible?

- McCain district in New England (I'm guessing only NH is possible)
- McCain district in New York City excluding Staten Island
- Obama, white non-Hispanic majority district in Texas, Arizona, or New Mexico
- Obama district in West Virginia
- Obama Hispanic district in Florida

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DRA still works with some old versions of Internet Explorer.

Unrelated, but DRA now has Oregon 2008 election data.