A redistricting map series

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Looks like you split the Colville rez.

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Looks like you split the Colville rez.

This is thorny.
I wanted to pair all of the most Latino counties in Eastern Washington in one district. All of Okanagan in WA-05 is not very compact. Michigan Rules (the most ironclad of all of the rules) de facto forces Walla Walla to be entirely within the 5th if any part of Okanagan is in the 4th.
What solutions do you see?

IMO the thing to do is to just treat rezes as their own county.

You can pretty easily make the divide in Okanagan E-W rather than SW-NE. That leaves the rez all in 5.

Btw, WA-08 isn't contiguous on your map--Skykomish is completely inaccessible.

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Is it really that easy? Colville Reservation has a huge section of the southern part of the county, one that makes it perhaps difficult to keep whole while also keeping to compactness rules.

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Keeps all of Colville in 5.

Btw, I'm aware of the lack of road contiguity with that little bit of WA-08. The rules favor county integrity over road contiguity. Of course, discontiguous counties are treated a bit differently - all the discontigous chunks are treated separately. But King is not such a county.

I'm actually shocked you didn't bring it up earlier.

I mean, King is functionally discontinuous--keeping Skykomish in 8 is basically sacrificing logic to The Rules.