So, I said I'd actually play around with Dave's Redistricting App. Unfortunately, I don't really know my geography that well, as to what parts of what district are D or R leaning, or have significant populations of what minority groups, or where college town communities are, etc.. But I needed a goal to work toward.
I started trying to see how I could redistrict Rhode Island as closely following county lines as possible. But that was boring. The insane maps--such as abgin's New York Baconmandering--are more fun. But I don't know where anything is. Wait...I'll stroke my ego by writing out my username's initials!
The other requirements for this map were to get as close to an even division of population as possible, and to retain five districts.
Sean Tevis is running for state representative in Kansas, and he's used an incredibly funny homage to webcomic xkcd to get his name out online. And boy, has it worked!
