Draw a district challenge: Whites in 4th place

[Tintrlvr]

New York should be doable by 1) connecting Flushing to the Bronx or 2) connecting Asian/Hispanic neighborhood in Brooklyn with African-American neighborhoods using parks to do most of the bridging across white neighborhoods or 3) south Queens.

It could also be possible in NJ by connecting Asian populations in Edison and Woodbridge with New Brunswick, Perth Amboy, Carteret, and Newark.

Bronx, Schmonx. Queens is where it's at. Here's a map located exclusively in Queens, and pretty compact, too. The hardest part was balancing the different minority groups, although Queens does have a fair number of diverse neighborhoods with multiple minority groups present and few white people, which is really essential to getting this done. Neighborhoods like Flushing and SE Queens that are heavily one minority group and then have a residual 5-10% white population were more of a hindrance.

https://davesredistricting.org/join/46832906-934b-48c3-98fe-07d392479f6b

5.0% white, 31.5% Hispanic, 30.4% black, 30.9% Asian. Didn't try to min-max more than needed, but for what it's worth I first drew a qualifying district that was more than 250,000 overpopulated and then shrunk it down. You should even be able to draw two such districts in NYC without going too crazy.

[Tintrlvr]

New York should be doable by 1) connecting Flushing to the Bronx or 2) connecting Asian/Hispanic neighborhood in Brooklyn with African-American neighborhoods using parks to do most of the bridging across white neighborhoods or 3) south Queens.

It could also be possible in NJ by connecting Asian populations in Edison and Woodbridge with New Brunswick, Perth Amboy, Carteret, and Newark.

Bronx, Schmonx. Queens is where it's at. Here's a map located exclusively in Queens, and pretty compact, too. The hardest part was balancing the different minority groups, although Queens does have a fair number of diverse neighborhoods with multiple minority groups present and few white people, which is really essential to getting this done. Neighborhoods like Flushing and SE Queens that are heavily one minority group and then have a residual 5-10% white population were more of a hindrance.

https://davesredistricting.org/join/46832906-934b-48c3-98fe-07d392479f6b

5.0% white, 31.5% Hispanic, 30.4% black, 30.9% Asian. Didn't try to min-max more than needed, but for what it's worth I first drew a qualifying district that was more than 250,000 overpopulated and then shrunk it down. You should even be able to draw two such districts in NYC without going too crazy.

I drew a fairly similar district that was 9% white the other day, but it had all of Corona and was farther west and north.
In any case in your map it should be easy enough to make a second such district in Brooklyn, perhaps even a third such district in the Bronx?

The challenge is that there may not be enough Asians elsewhere. The Bronx doesn't anywhere close to enough Asians and would at least need to dip into Queens. Brooklyn does have a larger Asian population, but still in neighborhoods that have large white residual populations, as in NE Queens (and not as in neighborhoods with large black/Hispanic populations, like Elmhurst or Queens Village or Richmond Hill), and still less than Queens.

[Tintrlvr]

New York should be doable by 1) connecting Flushing to the Bronx or 2) connecting Asian/Hispanic neighborhood in Brooklyn with African-American neighborhoods using parks to do most of the bridging across white neighborhoods or 3) south Queens.

It could also be possible in NJ by connecting Asian populations in Edison and Woodbridge with New Brunswick, Perth Amboy, Carteret, and Newark.

Bronx, Schmonx. Queens is where it's at. Here's a map located exclusively in Queens, and pretty compact, too. The hardest part was balancing the different minority groups, although Queens does have a fair number of diverse neighborhoods with multiple minority groups present and few white people, which is really essential to getting this done. Neighborhoods like Flushing and SE Queens that are heavily one minority group and then have a residual 5-10% white population were more of a hindrance.

https://davesredistricting.org/join/46832906-934b-48c3-98fe-07d392479f6b

5.0% white, 31.5% Hispanic, 30.4% black, 30.9% Asian. Didn't try to min-max more than needed, but for what it's worth I first drew a qualifying district that was more than 250,000 overpopulated and then shrunk it down. You should even be able to draw two such districts in NYC without going too crazy.

For what it's worth, now on 2020 Census figures my old map doesn't quite work (black population drops below 30%, and also it's oversized by about 23,000 people), but I fixed it and on the link it should still be functional.

Census figures actually made it more compact; I just dropped part of the arm out to Asian and Hispanic areas of Jackson Heights and added a few more heavily black precincts in SE Queens. Now 4.2% white, 31.1% Hispanic, 30.3%  black, 32.6% Asian (and 3.4% Native; a relatively high number of Hispanics in NYC in particular may have identified as Native on the Census, and if you did it right maybe you could get whites in 5th! New challenge).