This map creates two Democratic districts with a PVI of at least D+10 and two Republican districts with a PVI of at least R+30, which would be the two most Republican in the country.
The districts are contiguous, even when they don’t really look like it, including a narrow strip along the gulf shoreline for the fourth district.
As always I crunched the actual precinct data to produce these maps. However in this case, to my horror, I could have saved a week of transcribing scanned county records and just maximised the minority districts since they produce almost exactly the same map. Nevertheless at least this way we have precise voting totals for each district.
1st(Blue): 63.2% Obama 37.8W 57.3B
2nd(Green): 66.2% Obama 36.1W 59.1B
3rd(Dark Magenta): 22.4% Obama 79.6W 16.0B
4th(Red): 22.3% Obama 78.8W 15.1B
I think this has to go up there with abgin’s 27-0 New York map. Truly a sight to behold.
If so, this looks like sweet payback for being forced to eat that terrible “compromise” or whatever it was with Lt. Gov. Bryant.
now here’s the real question:
can you make 3 districts that are 50%+ Obama?
That is simply the best map I have ever seen on this sight. Brilliant.
That’s why i am for independent redistricting comissions in all 50 states. And for minimal county splitting everywhere where it’s possible too)))
If so, Obama should push the DOJ for 2 VRA districts
White Democrats exist in Mississippi!
This is a a good map, a piece of art, really, because is worse than the original 2000s Georgia map. Also, on the subject of creating two black-majority VAP seats, have you guys ever heard of Bill Marcy? He was the black Republican who ran against Bennie Thompson in 2010. He only got 37.6% of the vote, but if he had been running in a 50% black VAP seat instead of the 63.5% black one he was in, he could have won. In fact, he would be a slight favorite if Jackson wasn’t in the district and/or it was an open seat. The absolute last thing that Mississippi Democrats want is a black Republican congressman from their state. The DNC wouldn’t like it either, seeing as they already have to deal with Tim Scott from Charleston. The only sure way to hold a district like that for the Dems would be running a white Democrat a la G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) who could get heavy support from other white Democrats. However, that scenario defeats the purpose of a VRA VAP black-majority seat.
17, Male, Conservative Republican, TN-07 born and raised