Fair redistricting: California

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Here's my New Mexico proposal. Sandoval and Bernallillo are the only split counties; Bernallillo is split along reservation lines.




The logic was to keep the Albequerque metro in as few districts as possible, and to unite as much of the Native groups in the NW as possible. It turned out that the best way to accomplish both was by having NM-01 donut hole around the city. NM-01 is plurality Latinx by population but plurality White by VAP, Natives are a strong minority.

NM-01: Dv. -119, PVI D+8.49
NM-02: Dv. +66, PVI R+7.01
NM-03: Dv. +53, PVI D+7.15

I love the beauty of this map.
What's the Native % in NM-01?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

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That map is amazing.

[empty-quoting this just to redouble my previous expression of support for this map]
Also, this is post #6000.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Aww, thanks y'all.

@Timturner--NM-01 is 20.9% Indian, 19.3% by VAP. So not a majority or even a plurality, but it's still a pretty high percentage. I'm not sure whether the number on Wikipedia is VAP or total population, but either way it's not especially different from the current NM-03 in Native population.

Your map is so good I plan on voting for it over a whole-county map I plan on submitting.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

This one splits no counties but likely splits a reservation or two.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I'll start building a table to post SPICE scores for NM submissions here. NM has a PVI of D+3 and that projects to an advantage of 0.36 of a seat for the Dems. Rounding to whole numbers that would require a plan with 1 D 1R and 1 even seat to have a SKEW of 0. I think all the plans are 2 D and 1 R and they will have a SKEW of 1. The Albuquerque UCC is Bernalillo, Sandoval and Valencia and if those counties have more than 2 CDs it counts as an extra chop, as it does if no CD is nested in those three counties. A plan that picks up just the precinct needed to keep a reservation whole does not count as a chop, but if it picks up additional precincts in the chopped county it does count as a chop.

Plan	-S-	-P-	-I-	-C-	-E-
HCP	1	6	5	4	12
Sol	1	6	3	1	14
Solid4096	1	6	5	2	20
TimTurner	1	6	11	2	12
jimrtex	1	6	5	2	20

Jimrtex's whole county plan is the same as Solid4096.

If Sol is actually getting better scores with his very flawed plan than other plans that actually use sensible design methodology, then I think there is something that needs to be fixed with the muon rules. Probably the underlined part.

The muon rules are designed that way as to encourage keeping CDs within the cores of metropolitan areas; something that isn't exactly a bad objective to seek.