Colorado 2020 U.S. House Redistricting Discussion

[If my soul was made of stone]

It's essentially impossible to create a proper minority-influence district outside of metro Denver, which makes me wonder if there are ulterior partisan motives at play here. Either it would be a safe R district where all the Democrats are Hispanics but their candidates can't win, or it would be a swing district with a much smaller Hispanic minority where the Democratic primaries are controlled by ski country McGovernites. It makes much more sense to draw a Hispanic district in Denver and Adams County than to try this proposal.

[If my soul was made of stone]

I have no idea what this commission's obsession with Greeley is. Is there a Democrat from there on the commission who's taken with the idea of not being represented by Ken Buck?

This was my attempt at a nonpartisan map, including the north Denver/Adams Hispanic opportunity seat that I alluded to earlier in the thread:


Larimer + Boulder + Grand + Gilpin + Clear Creek is a perfect district (population deviation of less than 1,000), and I'm not sure why the commission hasn't discovered this yet.

[If my soul was made of stone]

Greeley Derangement Syndrome appears to be terminal.