2020 Census and Redistricting Thread: California

[Coastal Elitist]

I made three Emerald Coast maps. Which one do you like the best?

Left: CA-01, open
Center: CA-01, Doug LaMalfa
Right: CA-01, Mike Thompson

Don’t really like any of them to be honest

[I’m not Stu]

I made three Emerald Coast maps. Which one do you like the best?

Left: CA-01, open
Center: CA-01, Doug LaMalfa
Right: CA-01, Mike Thompson

Don’t really like any of them to be honest

But you separate Del Norte from Humboldt just because they vote differently. They should always go together. My map on the right is pretty traditional.

[Coastal Elitist]

I made three Emerald Coast maps. Which one do you like the best?

Left: CA-01, open
Center: CA-01, Doug LaMalfa
Right: CA-01, Mike Thompson

Don’t really like any of them to be honest

But you separate Del Norte from Humboldt just because they vote differently. They should always go together. My map on the right is pretty traditional.

No I didn’t go back and look at my most recent one I moved Del Norte back with Humboldt

[I’m not Stu]

I made three Emerald Coast maps. Which one do you like the best?

Left: CA-01, open
Center: CA-01, Doug LaMalfa
Right: CA-01, Mike Thompson

Don’t really like any of them to be honest

But you separate Del Norte from Humboldt just because they vote differently. They should always go together. My map on the right is pretty traditional.

No I didn’t go back and look at my most recent one I moved Del Norte back with Humboldt

Where did you put Inyo and Mono? They need to go together with either Victorville or Bakersfield.

[SevenEleven]

Left or right. No reason to split Humboldt and Mendocino.

[I’m not Stu]

Left or right. No reason to split Humboldt and Mendocino.

Is the one on the left or right better? Left is more compact, but right is more traditional.

[Coastal Elitist]

I made three Emerald Coast maps. Which one do you like the best?

Left: CA-01, open
Center: CA-01, Doug LaMalfa
Right: CA-01, Mike Thompson

Don’t really like any of them to be honest

But you separate Del Norte from Humboldt just because they vote differently. They should always go together. My map on the right is pretty traditional.

No I didn’t go back and look at my most recent one I moved Del Norte back with Humboldt

Where did you put Inyo and Mono? They need to go together with either Victorville or Bakersfield.

I put them with San Bernardino County like the current 8th is. Going back to the previous question it makes sense to do CA-2 with Del Norte, Mendocino, Humboldt and then part of Sonoma and Lake. Ideally with the current numbers you can make a district with all of Del Norte, Mendocino, Humboldt and Sonoma, but then you would need to have Marin county connect with Contra Costa and I don't really think those should go together. Really the 2nd district should not go that far inland in your case what you have labelled the 1st.

[I’m not Stu]

This configuration is more traditional. I don't want to connect Marin and Contra Costa. Maybe CA-01 shouldn't go this far inland ideally, but Garamendi's district is the easiest to eliminate in NorCal. My CA-01 is very similar to many other Atlasian maps of that district. My CA-03 (CA-04 equivalent) fits very well with my CA-22 (CA-23 equivalent). Are compact double digit Clinton districts sufficient for the two Central Valley VRAs?

Central Valley Hispanic districts:
CA-18 (access), Clinton +8
CA-19 (VRA), Fresno: Clinton +13
CA-20 (VRA), Bakersfield: Clinton +13

[MAPZZ]

This configuration is more traditional. I don't want to connect Marin and Contra Costa. Maybe CA-01 shouldn't go this far inland ideally, but Garamendi's district is the easiest to eliminate in NorCal. My CA-01 is very similar to many other Atlasian maps of that district. My CA-03 (CA-04 equivalent) fits very well with my CA-22 (CA-23 equivalent). Are compact double digit Clinton districts sufficient for the two Central Valley VRAs?

Central Valley VRA districts:
CA-19, Fresno: Clinton +11
CA-20, Bakersfield: Clinton +13

Really like your take on NorCal so far. Marin + and the remainder of Sonoma county will be the perfect size for another district too.

[I’m not Stu]

My Emerald Coast, eastern Sierra Nevada, and Jefferson districts, work with my Central Valley and Marin County. I got compact Latino Clinton +13 districts in Fresno and Bakersfield (CA-19 and CA-20) and a compact Clinton +8 Fresno Latino access district (CA-18). In San Diego, I did the VRA and Escondido, which are both compact. Any idea on who might take the open seat in CA-49?

[Coastal Elitist]

This configuration is more traditional. I don't want to connect Marin and Contra Costa. Maybe CA-01 shouldn't go this far inland ideally, but Garamendi's district is the easiest to eliminate in NorCal. My CA-01 is very similar to many other Atlasian maps of that district. My CA-03 (CA-04 equivalent) fits very well with my CA-22 (CA-23 equivalent). Are compact double digit Clinton districts sufficient for the two Central Valley VRAs?

Central Valley Hispanic districts:
CA-18 (access), Clinton +7
CA-19 (VRA), Fresno: Clinton +13
CA-20 (VRA), Bakersfield: Clinton +13

I took a closer look at my NorCal districts and came up with these two options.
Option 1:


Option 2:


Option 1 is a take on the old 52 district map and I think it goes together well and either way Glenn and Colusa should go with Tehama and Shasta.

[I’m not Stu]

This configuration is more traditional. I don't want to connect Marin and Contra Costa. Maybe CA-01 shouldn't go this far inland ideally, but Garamendi's district is the easiest to eliminate in NorCal. My CA-01 is very similar to many other Atlasian maps of that district. My CA-03 (CA-04 equivalent) fits very well with my CA-22 (CA-23 equivalent). Are compact double digit Clinton districts sufficient for the two Central Valley VRAs?

Central Valley Hispanic districts:
CA-18 (access), Clinton +8
CA-19 (VRA), Fresno: Clinton +13
CA-20 (VRA), Bakersfield: Clinton +13

I took a closer look at my NorCal districts and came up with these two options.
Option 1:


Option 2:


Option 1 is a take on the old 52 district map and I think it goes together well and either way Glenn and Colusa should go with Tehama and Shasta.

How did you draw them? That looks interesting.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

option 2 looks better to me. Bacon-stripping northern California like that is kind of unideal.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

thoughts on this arrangement?

[I’m not Stu]

thoughts on this arrangement?

Mendocino needs to go with Humboldt. The Emerald Coast needs to be kept together.

[Coastal Elitist]

option 2 looks better to me. Bacon-stripping northern California like that is kind of unideal.

It's not bacon stripping it's taking the Lake Tahoe Alpine area and extending it North on the other side of the mountains and it keeps all those counties whole.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

This configuration is more traditional. I don't want to connect Marin and Contra Costa. Maybe CA-01 shouldn't go this far inland ideally, but Garamendi's district is the easiest to eliminate in NorCal. My CA-01 is very similar to many other Atlasian maps of that district. My CA-03 (CA-04 equivalent) fits very well with my CA-22 (CA-23 equivalent). Are compact double digit Clinton districts sufficient for the two Central Valley VRAs?

Central Valley Hispanic districts:
CA-18 (access), Clinton +7
CA-19 (VRA), Fresno: Clinton +13
CA-20 (VRA), Bakersfield: Clinton +13

I took a closer look at my NorCal districts and came up with these two options.
Option 1:


Option 2:


Option 1 is a take on the old 52 district map and I think it goes together well and either way Glenn and Colusa should go with Tehama and Shasta.

Option 2 is pretty close to ideal IMO.

[Coastal Elitist]

This configuration is more traditional. I don't want to connect Marin and Contra Costa. Maybe CA-01 shouldn't go this far inland ideally, but Garamendi's district is the easiest to eliminate in NorCal. My CA-01 is very similar to many other Atlasian maps of that district. My CA-03 (CA-04 equivalent) fits very well with my CA-22 (CA-23 equivalent). Are compact double digit Clinton districts sufficient for the two Central Valley VRAs?

Central Valley Hispanic districts:
CA-18 (access), Clinton +8
CA-19 (VRA), Fresno: Clinton +13
CA-20 (VRA), Bakersfield: Clinton +13

I took a closer look at my NorCal districts and came up with these two options.
Option 1:


Option 2:


Option 1 is a take on the old 52 district map and I think it goes together well and either way Glenn and Colusa should go with Tehama and Shasta.

How did you draw them? That looks interesting.

The idea was to make a Lake Tahoe centered district with El Dorado, Placer and Nevada while making another that took in Shasta Trinity and Butte that surrounds the North I-5 corridor.

[I’m not Stu]

option 2 looks better to me. Bacon-stripping northern California like that is kind of unideal.

It's not bacon stripping it's taking the Lake Tahoe Alpine area and extending it North on the other side of the mountains and it keeps all those counties whole.

The split of Amador is ugly. There shouldn't be a narrow connection from Amador to Sacramento. That is uncompact. My Huntington Beach and Orange County VRA are compact.

[Coastal Elitist]

option 2 looks better to me. Bacon-stripping northern California like that is kind of unideal.

It's not bacon stripping it's taking the Lake Tahoe Alpine area and extending it North on the other side of the mountains and it keeps all those counties whole.

The split of Amador is ugly. There shouldn't be a narrow connection from Amador to Sacramento. That is uncompact. My Huntington Beach and Orange County VRA are compact.

Huntington Beach should be with Newport Beach

[I’m not Stu]

option 2 looks better to me. Bacon-stripping northern California like that is kind of unideal.

It's not bacon stripping it's taking the Lake Tahoe Alpine area and extending it North on the other side of the mountains and it keeps all those counties whole.

The split of Amador is ugly. There shouldn't be a narrow connection from Amador to Sacramento. That is uncompact. My Huntington Beach and Orange County VRA are compact.

Huntington Beach should be with Newport Beach

Where do you put Garden Grove? You don't put it with Long Beach, do you? That would pack demographically different OC Democrats into an LA County district.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

revised northern california

[Coastal Elitist]

revised northern california

The Emerald Coast should not be connected to Shasta, Butte or anything East of that. Also El Dorado should be with Placer.

[I’m not Stu]

option 2 looks better to me. Bacon-stripping northern California like that is kind of unideal.

It's not bacon stripping it's taking the Lake Tahoe Alpine area and extending it North on the other side of the mountains and it keeps all those counties whole.

The split of Amador is ugly. There shouldn't be a narrow connection from Amador to Sacramento. That is uncompact. My Huntington Beach and Orange County VRA are compact.

Huntington Beach should be with Newport Beach

Where do you put Garden Grove? You don't put it with Long Beach, do you? That would pack demographically different OC Democrats into an LA County district.

[Coastal Elitist]

option 2 looks better to me. Bacon-stripping northern California like that is kind of unideal.

It's not bacon stripping it's taking the Lake Tahoe Alpine area and extending it North on the other side of the mountains and it keeps all those counties whole.

The split of Amador is ugly. There shouldn't be a narrow connection from Amador to Sacramento. That is uncompact. My Huntington Beach and Orange County VRA are compact.

Huntington Beach should be with Newport Beach

Where do you put Garden Grove? You don't put it with Long Beach, do you? That would pack demographically different OC Democrats into an LA County district.

I put it with Cerritos and Buena Park