The Reverse Gerrymandering Project

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Good idea!

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Kudos for that creative 5th district. I would not have expected a Clinton district to be possible without completely grotesque Rorsach blot lines.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Yeah you can get a very logical district 8 based in Green Bay and the Fox River Valley but that WI06 is quite bad.Its not a particularly partisan decision one has to make either way although keeping the Fox River Valley whole means Baldwin barely wins the district in 2018 but it still should be pretty safe for any Republican.

I tried to have a logical district 8 but it results almost invariably with Dane being split. Reason being, Sheboygan and the rural Lake Michigan coast can only really be paired with WOW, and unless the 4th goes anywhere, you end up with 100k-150k from Waukesha being thrown in, which in turn forces a Dane split as CDs rotate.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Kudos for that creative 5th district. I would not have expected a Clinton district to be possible without completely grotesque Rorsach blot lines.

This might not be a Clinton district, but it voted Democratic by over 20 in the 2018 gubernatorial election: https://districtr.org/plan/102538.

I assume Biden also won here?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Kudos for that creative 5th district. I would not have expected a Clinton district to be possible without completely grotesque Rorsach blot lines.

This might not be a Clinton district, but it voted Democratic by over 20 in the 2018 gubernatorial election: https://districtr.org/plan/102538.

I assume Biden also won here?

Don't have the data on that, unfortunately, but there's a very high chance he did (in the 2018 House elections, it did go blue by a solid 8.4%, so I suppose it supported Biden as well).

Ah. That makes sense.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

For North Carolina I think you can do a 10-4 that isn’t too ugly. You aim for three red districts in the western half of the state and one in the east. An Asheville-Charlotte district is the safest route– a district made of Buncombe, Rutherford, and Cleveland counties with part of Gaston county and enough of Charlotte to make the district blue. You should be able to make two more solidly blue districts out of the rest of Charlotte and its suburbs.

The 3rd, as a Republican sink, you’ll want to have include the entire NC coast, including just a narrow strip of Wilmington to link the current district to include Columbus and Brunswick counties. (The rest of Wilmington can stay in a 7th which you will flip blue)

From here it’s simply a case of distributing the remaining Dem districts as neatly as you can, they’ll border each other after all.

https://davesredistricting.org/join/d07143ee-c347-4d3e-b536-7173c9d1adcc
This ought to do the job.