2020 Census and Redistricting Thread: Louisiana

[Former President tack50]

My take on a "bipartisan" map, where Rs cave to the Dem governor and give up a Safe R seat for a tossup; in exchange for some state legislature stuff (I imagine the more likely scenario is the opposite though?)



Seats 1, 3, 4 and 5 are all Safe R; and all incumbents have their home inside their district. District 2 is Safe D and 49.1% black by CVAP. It is not quite 50%; but it is more than enough to elect a black Democrat I imagine

Seat 6 is the interesting one; being Trump+1 and R+2 it is a pure tossup, though I imagine it is also very likely to be super polarized. It is 43% black and 51% white.

[Former President tack50]

My attempt at creating a state Senate fair map. I am almost completely sure I didn't include enough VRA districts but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Interestingly my map ended with many competitive districts despite Louisiana being a very inelastic state



https://davesredistricting.org/join/f289c3a9-53e5-42c4-b1b1-26a0b68e92af

There should be 9 Safe D districts, 6 competitive districts and 24 Safe R districts.

Tipping point districts are district 7 (Trump+24, R+16; Located western Jefferson parish and northeastern St. Charles parish) and district 18 (covers south Baton Rouge and a tiny bit of Iberville parish)