US House Redistricting: Indiana

[Brittain33]

I posted some maps on the Maps We Need to See! thread I'll repost over here; they're my idea of how one could make the map more Republican, but not necessarily how it would be done. One thing you learn quite quickly is that South Bend can not be thrown into the Gary district, there are just too many people living in that corner of the state. So it's all about making the 2nd more Republican while still having it based in South Bend.

[Brittain33]

Pence was bounced from his home as well, in IN-06. I guess he is running for governor. In fact IN-06 looks like a marginal CD now since it has Monroe County in it, with only one and a half heavily GOP suburban Indianapolis counties in it (not enough), before wandering pointlessly to the Ohio River. It just doesn't make any sense at all.

It picks up some Republican suburbs of Louisville down at the Ohio River.

[Brittain33]

Pence was bounced from his home as well, in IN-06. I guess he is running for governor. In fact IN-06 looks like a marginal CD now since it has Monroe County in it, with only one and a half heavily GOP suburban Indianapolis counties in it (not enough), before wandering pointlessly to the Ohio River. It just doesn't make any sense at all.

It picks up some Republican suburbs of Louisville down at the Ohio River.

You both seem to be very confused. Pence's seat, IN-06, is the one in the SE corner of the state. It contains neither Bloomington/Monroe County nor any Louisville suburbs and is overall almost certainly the most Republican district on the map. (It's the only one to contain no counties that voted for Obama.)

IN-09 contains both and is Young's seat--and it has to contain Bloomington because Young lives there (and is still around R+6 or so, maybe winnable for Baron Hill if he runs again but probably not).

I couldn't read the numbers on the map, so I assumed we were talking about Young's seat.