Colorado 2020 U.S. House Redistricting Discussion

[EastAnglianLefty]

34% white still probably isn't a performing majority-minority district. I managed to draw one that was by population 34.2% white, 49.1% Hispanic and 11.7% black. By CVAP, it's 48.7% white, 34.0% Hispanic and 12.1% black. Given Clinton got just under 70% in it, amongst Democratic voters whites probably still have a decent plurality.

Your lines are slightly different from those I picked, so the exact figures may vary somewhat, but it's probably not enough to make it perform.

[EastAnglianLefty]

Using the 2018 figures, you can get away with surprisingly few county splits:



https://davesredistricting.org/join/e0792b75-750e-4a72-b0bb-76c3612f0022

Aside from the isolated bits of counties inside Denver, the only ones to be split are Teller, Jefferson and Bloomfield (and in the latter, the line follows the historic Boulder County border.) As far as possible, I also tried to avoid splitting municipalities. I'm not convinced it's the best map, but it's certainly one of the cleanest.

The 1st, 2nd, 6th and 7th are all safe D, Trump won the 8th by 2.5%.

[EastAnglianLefty]

Yeah, I tend to agree - it started out as an attempt to work out groupings based on Denver and El Paso County both being almost exactly the right size for a district, it's just that then there were so many other groupings that worked that I decided to push the idea as far as it would go.