Blue districts in Red Areas (And vice/versu)

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So I've been messing around with North Carolina's congressional maps and noticed a lot of blue dots in the red sea that is western North Carolina and this was the mess that I made out of that.


This lovely monster stretchers from Hendersonville/Asheville to Boone, to Gastonia, to Winston-Salem (horrible I know).

However, that reminded me of another unholy spaghetti monster I made a while ago...


A Dem +2 district in the *heavily* republican upstate of South Carolina. Going all over from Spartanburg to Anderson to Aiken to Newberry to Lancaster and Rockhill.


I also once made a map for New Hampshire with two safe seats for each party (one D+7, the other R+6)


So that got me wondering if anyone has made any other horrible spindly districts trying to give the minority party in a region/state a seat. Feel free to throw in any other random snakes. It's always fun to see the extremes of gerrymandering.

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There's always the snakes one can draw linking any of Lancaster-York-Harrisburg-Reading.

Sorry for no map.

No need to be sorry ! That does sound absolutely cursed

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The Louisiana one isn’t too dissimilar from an actual district in the 90s.

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Made a Clinton+0.2 district in ultrarepublican Southwest Florida:

What a beautiful nightmare, could you make a district out of the area left out?

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https://davesredistricting.org/join/a0fa5df8-e4b9-463e-be44-cf9f10450a5a

Clinton +20 district in downstate Illinois that strings together Champaign, Bloomington, Peoria, Springfield and the Metro East. I legitimately felt sick after doing this.

Here's a map I did with two firmly Clinton downstate seats (vom). Not pleased with Chicagoland as a gerrymander so please ignore.

I love how hideous that is

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Is there any way to make a red district in Brooklyn/Queens, LA, or Chicago?

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Crammed 9 Trump districts into Southern California. Getting a 10th in might be possible, but I gave up on it. Clinton would average over 70% in the remaining 20 districts.

I wonder what kinda representatives would they elect, probably more Steele/Stefanik/Collins types (faux moderates)

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Missouri - three D+5 districts and one D+10 district.

https://davesredistricting.org/join/89a6e736-4f12-4367-9ef0-cf0a02e323fd

That's a truly nightmarish shoestring connecting Kansas City, Columbia, Jefferson City, Springfield, and St. Louis (county).

The four D districts are designed for trends, too. This is with 2016 Presidential data. They will only become more D during the 2020s, the northern KC-centered one especially.


Also, the McCloskeys get to be in a Safe R district with this map (lol).

It's possible to make a more geographically balanced map by making two districts linking Kansas City to Columbia and Jefferson City respectively and hugging the river, but then those two districts are only Clinton +1. Trends will change this eventually, though.


Obviously, this ignores the VRA. I'll have to see if it's still possible while following it.

I live for the blue spanning the state