Even though a voting precinct may technically cover that area? I'm wondering if a legislature wanted to connect two areas by uninhabited woods or a highway but didn't want the areas on either side of this area with no people, could they do it? I know the 2000s version of FL-22 was so thin at some points along the Atlantic that it was connected only by a beach or sandpit without including the liberal condos in front of them.
Could a legislature just draw an inch thick line along the border of a state and then have it jut out to pick up areas that it wanted in that district?
Almost all of the human population is in the three isolated prongs on the eastern edge of the district, while it mostly alligators in the areas in the big area to the west. It actually measures as fairly compact if comparing area to perimeter.
There are no bridges a across Tampa Bay to connect the areas in Tampa and St.Petersburg. It does comply with one manatee, one vote.
This actually has four whole counties, it only splits candidates where necessary to avoid populated areas. Notice the district enters Tallahassee from the west, and Jacsonville to he south, but it follows that nice straight line along the Georgia border.
Topologically it is feasible to lay out districts like tree rings, a millimeter thick around the outer edge of the state, with the entire population interior to the innermost ring.
You can then choose land islands that you want in the outermost district (none actually have to be on the outer boundary) and connect them to the outer millimeter-wide ring with millimeter-wide threads. The inner-rings are wrapped around the islands and the connecting thread.
