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Quote from: Oryxslayer on June 30, 2017, 06:58:04 PM

Quote from: jimrtex on June 30, 2017, 02:19:58 PM

Can you get SC-3 and SC-5 to 50% without going into Richfield? Then you can put all of Richland in a district and not worry about whether it is a required VRA district since it will be an effective cross-over district based on neutral non-racial considerations.

You shouldn't have to split both Orangeburg and Williamsburg.

The Florence finger is suspect.

The split of Charleston is OK, given that you have to have space for two non-VRA districts along the coast. But is that true? What happens if SC-1 takes all of Beaufort and Dorchester?

Greenville should not be split. Bring the Spartanburg district south and then SC-10 over to the west.

I don't like those nibble of Lexington.

I took some of your criticism to heart, and here is a new map which avoids splitting Richland.

First I assume you mean SC - 01 instead of SC - 03. And yes, you can it seems put both of the belt districts out of Richland. The BVAPs are lower, closer to 50%, however the Obama % is still fine.

I shouldn't have spit Orangeburg and Williamsburg, and the Spartanburg northern area - that was simply me focusing on one district at a time.

The bits in Lexington were the most AA parts along the district. However, killing the southern cut removed some of these nibbles and only required a small cut to reach equity.

First off, Beaufort. The population of the cubed districts is too low to actually add and whites along to coast to one of the BVAP districts and actually hope to add more blacks elsewhere. Once I get to my writeups (halfway done!) I shall explain how SC was one of the hardest maps for me. This was because the coast has exactly the right population for two districts. However, the population distribution along the coast made it almost impossible to draw the two nicely. Let me be frank, if the coast is going to be cut off from the interior by the BVAP districts, then it needs to be drawn like I have here.

Second the Florence Finger. It is ugly, disgusting, obtuse, horrible, and cuts counties and cities freely. Yet, destroying the finger removes 2% BVAP. It needs to exist if there are going to be two black belt districts + Richland. It itself therefore is a necessary evil. I hate it, yet it must on some level exist for this map. If a two BVAP district map was being made, then Florence and Darlington entirely could be subtracted from the district and Richland bits could be added.

Also, I wish you could quit posting here Dwarvan Dragon, in a kind way. I am about to drop maps yet every post you seem to make makes the maps I will post outdated...

I don't care if your drop includes some states that I or others did.

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