Plan to split California into 6 states advances

[Adam Griffin]

Well crap - I somehow missed TJ's calculations and ended up replicating it. Oh well, I had fun anyway.

All of our numbers essentially match except for Jefferson - not sure what happened there. I have it being a few points more R in 2012 than he does. These are the percentages between the two parties/two-way model:

[Adam Griffin]

As someone who isn't from CA and definitely doesn't understand all of the regional nuances and such, I still thought I'd try to make a better map than the one presented initially. I went for 4 states instead of 6, and made the selection without trying to guess which party would be the majority in which (though I secretly had hoped Republicans would still be marginalized). Particularly in the northern state, I wanted there to be at least one major city (hence the inclusion of Sacramento), but this was what I got: