2020 Census and Redistricting Thread: Alabama

[GeorgiaModerate]

Also by Del Tachi's logic there shouldn't be any splits in representation for metro areas that are split between states. You can walk across a short pedestrian bridge from downtown Fargo to downtown Moorhead, but once you cross that border there's going to be different representation in the House, and even in the Senate at that. Also true of Bristol, TN and Bristol, VA which don't even have a river running through them and are so closely linked they have the same name.

Texarkana is another example.

[GeorgiaModerate]

AL-2 is Biden+10.8 on map 1, Biden+9.6 on map 2, and Biden+12.7 on map 3.

AL-7 is solid D on all three maps.

I really don't see how Letlow is still a contender for any of those then.

Letlow is in Lousiana. AL-01 and 02 are held by 2020-elected Trumpists, both who live outside the district. Both will probably either run for district 1, or find some other office if they think they cannot win.

LMAO you are right! Total brain fart moment.

Well, you were right that Letlow isn't a contender for any of them.

[GeorgiaModerate]

The Mobile senate seats I drew make more sense then they're drawn currently, with the black seat spanning across the river into Baldwin county. And they're all at least likely R. Mobile is a solidly Republican county, there's no reason democrats need to be given a freebie state senate there just because it's feasible.

There isn't anything fair about using racial quotas to maximize democratic officeholders in an overwhelmingly republican state. There's no self-evident universal principle that there needs to be any blue districts drawn, even giving the democrats 3 or 4 is practically charity.

There is no reason to span them across the river, I never suggested that and don't know why the current map does.  

Mobile county voted 43% Biden.  That's not solidly Republican and certainly if going by proportionality it deserves one Dem Senate seat that's extremely easy to draw and very compact, and respects city limits.

Literally the only possible reason you don't want it to happen is to benefit Republicans, that's it.   You aren't making "fair and compact" districts at all.

Benefitting republicans and disadvantaging democrats is what redistricting fairness *means.* The fairest map gives the least representation to the political left, since the political left is unfair.

...and Yellowhammer finally drops the pretense of arguing in good faith and descends into trolling.