Unpopular position - NY Dems should gerrymander the crap out of the state in 2020

[Del Tachi]

Maps that would maximize partisan advantage for the Democrats in states like NY, CA and IL are politically unpalatable because they would require unpacking VRA-protected urban districts to more efficiently spread those voters around, which is not something that minority reps in those states' legislatures are going to acquiesce to.

One reason that GOP legislatures (especially in the South) have historically been able to erect such egregious gerrymanders is that they can often count on the tacit support of Black Democrats, who like being drawn into 70-30, majority-Black vote sinks.

[Del Tachi]

Illinois and Maryland, too. Hopefully gerrymandering is ended by 2030 nationwide, but for this round, there's no point in voluntarily disarming.

Virginia would be another easy one to gerrymander too.  Not sure how this commission will play out but my understanding is that the courts could have the final say and I believe Dems are packing the courts here so theoretically it's possible they could gerrymander the state and they really should.

Virginia now has really bad geography for the Republicans, since most of their excess votes are logically packed into 2 Appalachia-based districts.  A proportional map of Virginia would ostensibly be a Republican gerrymander, so a commission-drawn plan should naturally overrepresent Democrats.