I'm trying to challenge myself and make an R gerrymander of the NY Senate, or at least draw a composition that resembles the current Senate, but by the looks of things, the state is going to be at least 2-1 D. Do state Republicans just naturally do better in D-friendly territory here or something?
State Senate Republicans overperform on Long Island and in other places that seem like D-friendly territory. The NYC suburbs aren't as Democratic as they look on the national level.
Plus, under the current gerrymander, Senate districts are far from uniform size. NYC districts are overpopulated relative to the mean. Upstate districts are underpopulated. The deviation is pretty large - 10%.
Yeah, the NY Senate is already an R map.
Here's a pretty good visualization of the population disparity between NYC and the rest of the state.
