Northern vs Southern Georgia

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Here is how I would have drawn Southern Georgia Districts for the 2010 census:



The 2nd is a Black VRA District that would have been Safe D for this decade.
The 8th would have been Safe R for this decade.
The 1st is in the outer range of competitiveness potential, but still would have been R at the US House level all decade most likely.
The 12th is a very competitive District that went for McCain, then for Obama in 2012, both by less than 0.5%, then for Trump by just under 5% in 2016, but John Barrow, who won it in the 2018 general, probably could have held it all decade for the Ds if he wanted to, though it probably goes R without him.

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Why exclude Columbia County?

I excluded Columbia County from GA-12 in this map because there was no good way to include it while still keeping the total population of the Districts close to equal.