2020 New York Redistricting

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

9 might have too many liberal whites to be black functioning.

It's 47% black VAP, 33% white, and 14% Hispanic, which should be enough

What’s the partisanship of 10? - looks like it could be a bit iffy for Dems, but not a bad district in terms of COI

Clinton +24, Biden +18. 42% white VAP and 34% Asian.

Splitting Hempstead township 4 ways just feels wrong.

I was prioritizing the gerrymander over keeping townships intact!

Demographically those three districts are all quite heavily Asian-American, but Asian as a label encompasses a lot of very distinct groups. 4 and 10 are more heavily Chinese, but 6 is very diverse, with large Chinese, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi communities. Those areas may not necessarily feel the need to be included in one Asian access district if they have different political interests and establishments.

And I suppose here we see the disadvantage of DRA not separating between more specific groups.

For whatever reason New Yorkers also seem to have a really intense negative reaction to crossing the Long Island-NYC line, which is something I don't really get but seems to be the case. I proposed a similar double dip into Nassau but it was not so well received.

Given that Long Island is only entitled to 3.76 districts, it's necessary to cross that line somewhere of course, but I can see how going from 4 primarily Long Island based districts to only 3 might be something not everyone would be happy with.

This is my personal favorite configuration for Long Island; NY-04 here is only plurality Black (39% Black, 31% White, and 23% Latino) but almost certainly would be performing since white voters here are fairly Republican. This lets you put the rest of predominantly Black areas in SW Queens in with Jeffries's district, which has the knock-on effect of allowing for a Black influence coalition district in Brooklyn in addition to NY-09 and NY-08.

Nice.