Dave's Redistricting App

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San Jose is split into three districts, and combining the coast between Santa Cruz and Half Moon Bay with Alviso, Milpitas and Fremont isn't a very good idea. But the rest o fthe Bay Area looks fine.

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The green district (where I live) is fascinating.

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The green district (where I live) is fascinating.

So far, that district in San Jose and adjacent areas and the one in NYC are the only two Asian-majority districts I've found. If that were the CA map in 2012, who do you think would win the district?

Democratic victories all across the board. Mike Honda would certainly have no trouble holding the district.

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New features on the app: partisan data for California and Texas. Also, options to shade districts by partisan or demographic data.

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My precinct:

Total Population: 1,873
White: 907 (48%)
Asian: 883 (47%)
Hispanic: 36 (2%)
Black: 0 (0%)
Native: 0 (0%)
Other: 47 (3%)

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=SUM(first cell:last cell)

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Those are some ugly seats!

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Is it possible to draw an Asian-majority CD in the lower 48?
How small would that CD have to be to have and Asian majority?

It is possible, btw, to draw a majority-minority CD in Wisconsin. It looks hideous, though, because the Milwaukee ghettos have to be connected via very thin strips with high-minority areas of Racine and Kenosha.

There are several examples of Asian-majority districts in Northern and Southern California on previous pages. They're not pretty, but they're not that terrible.

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Here's the link that Dave Bradlee couldn't post:

www.kwiksurveys.com/online-survey.php?surveyID=HBNLOI_a50d3df

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So it looks like if you draw a "natural" district in Salt Lake County from the top down south it ends up about 55% Obama. You could drawn into Park City to boost it, but that's not very big. 55% is pretty impressive for Utah though.

Nonpartisan redistricting in Utah would certainly create a district that would at least be Democratic-leaning.