2020 Census and Redistricting Thread: California

[Thunder98 🇮🇱 🤝 🇵🇸]

I was bored and decided to make some wacky Central California districts.

[Thunder98 🇮🇱 🤝 🇵🇸]

Here is a 44-8 D somewhat Dem Gerrymander congressional map of California based on 2020 Prez data. On top of that, Dems also have such a huge geographic advantage in this state.

https://davesredistricting.org/join/c0ae6298-6253-40c7-92d2-387d154db55e

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Here is a my first CA map since the 2020 data came out. I didn't like how some of district turn out such as CA-29 and CA-32. On the VRA, I was able to make 48 Minority opportunity districts! 25 Hispanic opportunity seats, 1 Black opportunity seat and 6 Asian opportunity seats. Overall composition is 46 Biden - 6 Trump districts. This time I finally stop putting coastal NorCal and inland NorCal in the district together.

https://davesredistricting.org/join/a4f615fb-66f6-45b7-a2cc-57e5975800ff

[Thunder98 🇮🇱 🤝 🇵🇸]

Will Inyo and Mono go with San Bernardino or Kern? Harley Rouda filed to run in CA-48, but I think it loses the South Coast and takes in most of the CA-47 territory in OC. Will Laguna Beach end up in CA-45 or CA-49?

You can put Inyo and Mono with San Bernadino easily as the current map has. You can also gerrymander it a little to put them in with both the Republican parts of SB and rural Kern.

As for Laguna Beach, I would guess it goes into CA-49. That's what my map does right now for it at least.

Rouda filed to run in CA-48. Will he carpetbag or drop out? I can’t imagine him running in CA-45 or CA-49.

It's possible Laguna Beach will be in the new CA-48. My map has it in CA-45, with CA-48 starting at Newport Beach and stretching to the west OC border, going up into Westminster and Garden Grove more. My CA-49 is similar to the current one, but it stretches into Laguna Niguel.



Here is my CA map as a whole. In many ways it is a least-change map. The current map is provided for reference.

For some reason, I can't see any of your maps.

[Thunder98 🇮🇱 🤝 🇵🇸]

Here's a 45 Biden - 7 Trump CA map. Some of the districts turned out kind of weird tbh, especially District 1, 3 and 24. Though I was mostly following the current congressional map, but since CA lost 1 seat, it complicates everything. I factored the incumbents location in each district except in Karen Bass's district and Napolitano seat since Bass is running for LA Mayor and Napolitano doesn't even live in her own district.

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[Thunder98 🇮🇱 🤝 🇵🇸]

My district (CA-24) gets bluer in this proposed map by taking the more Republican/purple areas of San Luis Obispo County (Paso Robles, Templeton, Atascadero) into Panetta's seat. I don't like how SLO County is being split.

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I don't like how SLO County is being split.

If SLO is to be split at all (and not doing so has big implications for Monterey/Santa Cruz/Santa Clara and Ventura/Los Angeles), Cuesta Grade is certainly the best possible place to do it. Don't you agree?

If SLO County has to be split, then I agree that the Cuesta Grade would be the best natural border to split districts.

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My district (CA-24) in this proposed map goes from a PVI of D+19 to D+25 by removing the republican area of SLO County. Before 2018, the Republicans really wanted to take this seat from Lois Capps and Salud Carbajal. Now it's utterly impossible for them to do so now.

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The SoCal seats are ugly as hell.