2020 Census and Redistricting Thread: Alabama

[voice_of_resistance]

If they axe AL-02 and AL-06 retakes some black precincts of Birmingham, it'll go from being R+26 to R+20. Not much, except Jones may have won it in 2017. The fairest map would have a JeffCo district, as well as a Black Belt district, but the AA population would get very low on both.

[voice_of_resistance]

This is my take on what a fair map would be.

https://davesredistricting.org/join/90d473e9-c12d-4317-a891-fe50e3d4b4af

The black belt district is 56% black, and the JeffCo-Tuscaloosa district is 52% white and 42% black, but JeffCo whites are less racially polarized and are more liberal than other AL white voters.

[voice_of_resistance]

Alabama really deserves a 6R-0D map. VRA is racially discriminatory and an utter travesty.

yeah, ok Jesse Helms. until whites stop bloc voting against blacks in the South to deny them political agency the VRA is needed. I'm a fan of you being a Dixiecrat most of the time but seriously this is a bad take

[voice_of_resistance]

https://davesredistricting.org/join/6dc30ccd-21ad-4b65-99a8-737520e47924

Here's my particularly vicious take on what a non-VRA map would look like.



AL-01: Trump 61-39
AL-02: Trump 63-37
AL-03: Trump 60-40
AL-04: Trump 62-38
AL-05: Trump 66-34
AL-06: Trump 64-36

Honestly, this looks like an Alabama map from the 1960s. Which makes sense, given the intention of the Dixiecrats back then and how they dovetail with modern Republican's desire to limit AA voting power. All of these districts are fairly trend-proof and even where they are not they are anchored by crimson red areas, especially in the north where the old AL-04 is split up to keep all seats at Trump 60 and above.