US with Indian constituencies

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Ha, an appropriate use of LSU colors!

There isn't any way to get a compact(ish) black-plurality district in LA with districts this size, is there?

Haha

I probably should have had a bit of analysis of my maps when I posted them. For LA, my first draft had Baton Rouge and New Orleans in the same district for an east-west split:



I guess there is some precedent for that, given the current LA-02. The black population in the eastern district would be 32%.

I think there would be some local pushback to putting New Orleans and Baton Rouge in the same district. Also given the state's cultural geography, it made more sense to put New Orleans with Acadiana (for a 'Catholic' district) and Baton Rouge with the rest of the north.

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Penn's Woods.

How much would it change things if you moved Cambria and Somerset Counties into CD5?

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For SC, how bout putting Columbia with the rest of the upstate area?

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For SC, how bout putting Columbia with the rest of the upstate area?

Yeah, that's much better than both of my maps.  Unless of course you really need a deviation of only 15.

The 15 deviation would have been nice! I don't know what Ernest's take is, but living in Charlotte, I always associated Columbia more with the upstate/Charlotte region as opposed to Charleston, so that was my starting point.

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Shame we don't have Bush/Kerry 2004 numbers, those would be PERFECT for gauging it. We can estimate though I guess.

For traininthedistance's WI?

CD1: 52.3/46.8 Kerry
CD2: 51.8/47.1 Bush


Gass will have to confirm this, but I'd say CD1 is Lean D (except in a 2010 year) while CD2 is Tilt R and trending further in that direction.