A redistricting map series

[Tekken_Guy]

Had to make some tough decisions here. I considered both Ocean-to-Burlington and Ocean-to-Mercer. Ultimately, the pair-rural-with-rural thing and the fact it was impossible to avoid 3 seats being within the NJ side of the Philly metro dashed Trenton being paired with areas within the NY MSA.

I was of course able to hew to Michigan Rules and have two additional minority opportunity seats besides the mandatory black seat and the mandatory Latino seat. One of them was designed to be as Asian as was practical, the other as Hispanic as was practical. In case of the former, I sacrificed 5 percentage points of Asian % for sake of compactness and keeping the 12th more rural.

For all this to work, the city of Newark was split. Essex County was the only county in the state that was tri-chopped, rather impressive given the restraints I was working with and the fact I hewed to Michigan Rules. On a sidenote, NJ-05 here is the first EVEN district drawn.

NJ-01: 61-38 Biden, D+10; 60W, 19B, 15H
NJ-02: 51-47 Trump, R+4; 63W, 17H, 14B
NJ-03: 65-34 Biden, D+14; 53W, 21B, 15H, 11A
NJ-04: 62-37 Trump, R+15; 80W, 11H
NJ-05: 53-46 Biden, EVEN; 62W, 15A, 13H
NJ-06: 66-33 Biden, D+15; 34W, 27H, 24A, 16B
NJ-07: 73-26 Biden, D+23; 34H, 30W, 19B, 17A
NJ-08: 78-21 Biden, D+28; 48B, 27H, 22W
NJ-09: 59-40 Biden, D+7; 54W, 20A, 19H
NJ-10: 64-35 Biden, D+15; 54H, 28W, 12B
NJ-11: 55-44 Biden, D+3; 65W, 14H, 12A
NJ-12: 50-48 Trump, R+5; 72W, 12H, 10A

https://davesredistricting.org/join/1b56869f-be49-41a0-8c7b-79d5a480f57c

Why did you choose to pack Republican voters in one North Jersey seat (your NJ-12) when they could be used instead to make NJ-11 more competitive.