2020 Census and Redistricting Thread: Minnesota

[Tintrlvr]

Here is my least change court drawn map to put in the hopper. Not much happens vis a vis the existing map.

https://davesredistricting.org/join/ecd8e1ba-c809-4be2-91f5-4e7c3a81b549

There have been lots of rather exotic-looking maps drawn in this thread, but if Minnesota (against all odds) is keeping its eighth congressional district, this will be the most likely (though boring) map to be adopted, especially given the evenly divided and split nature of the legislature.  So largely an incumbent-protection map with some minor shifts to account for population changes.    

Yep. I highly doubt the new congressional map changes any more than necessary from the current one. State legislative maps will be far more interesting.

On this note, is there a way to start with the existing Congressional map on the current version of DRA? It seems like there ought to be, and there has been in past iterations of DRA, but if there is right now, I can't figure it out.

[Tintrlvr]

Here's my actually overall I think pretty reasonable 5D-3R gerrymander with the third R seat being I think quite winnable for a Democrat.



https://davesredistricting.org/join/47bca035-b26e-4f28-9f26-f1db506cfe07

Minimal municipal splits, relatively few county splits, didn't go crazy with splitting up the inner parts of the Twin Cities metro. I think having two suburbs+ districts south of the Twin Cities was the key to making this map work. Both of those seats were about Biden+9 in 2020 and voted (very narrowly) for Clinton in 2016 so should be reasonably solid for the Democrats. The northern district was Trump+9 in 2020 but also voted Klobuchar+15 and Smith+4 in 2018 so definitely winnable.