2020 Census and Redistricting Thread: Michigan

[Oryxslayer]

https://twitter.com/mcpli/status/1752122946632786249?s=20

Commission activity on House maps. No images but here is the report from one of the advisory experts. Notable charts:







Immediate takeaways:

Map Daisy 2 is the only one that this expert recommends which the commission adopted as a potential place to build off. Which seems like a very loaded decision. Especially since Daisy 2 seems tailor made to respect the commissions previous intentions by maintaining the overall partisanship of the seats. Additionally, a large number of districts all seemingly are bunched up on the chart at like 55% BVAP, a number likely given by a expect and then targeted with care. All the maps with absurd BVAP districts that would qualify as packing, or not much change and seeming to maintain the cracking based on percentages got chucked.

Meanwhile this part of this experts advice seemed to be ignored since he was pushing for more compact lines, and noted Daisy 2  has continuity with the previous plan.

[Oryxslayer]

10 maps are submitted to the website for public comment. There are many maps up there, but these are the advanced ones:

https://twitter.com/mcpli/status/1753236619123888158?t=TVOfDHZ4S-VUMKa3ahVH_A&am...

Daisy 2 is very much the minimal change map which creating the necessary access seats. 

In fact, only it and Tulip seen to make an attempt to unpack Detroit into seats that are not going to run afoul of racial packing claims, but still are majority-minority and would satisfy the court order. Which to me suggests the commission already has their ideal design, they just have to put up more maps that are perhaps purposfully designed to fail.