u/Rich-Ad-9696

We all love Kansas City, don’t we? A lot of things come to mind… Kansas City barbecue, Pat Mahomes, et cetera.

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It’s 2026, and we’ve just come off of a high help controversial landmark decision stemming from a congressional map in Louisiana. In Georgia, the mostly white Republicans considered the idea of redrawing their districts to favor themselves, but they scrapped it since the Black migration to the Atlanta suburbs was really inevitable.

This is perhaps my attempt at a GOP gerrymander of the Georgia House, although it may come off as inefficient due to the leftward trend of the Atlanta suburbs.

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St. Louis is known for a few things. For one, it is home to the Gateway Arch. For another, it is the crime that plagues the city, especially on the north side. The reason St. Louis is even more violent than Chicago has something to do with Missouri's more relaxed gun laws as opposed to Illinois' more restrictive gun laws.

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Georgia is controlled by Republicans despite it being a purple state. Initially, Republicans considered the idea of redrawing Georgia's fourteen congressional districts, but it was scrapped because political analysts realized something that they had not. The Louisiana v. Callais may prompt a huge response from Black voters, who are starting voter registration drives in their neighborhoods to bolster their political strength. This, alongside a Black migration to the Atlanta suburbs, makes it fairly unlikely for the Grand Old Party in Georgia to mount a campaign to redraw the Atlanta maps to make them more favorable to them.

Although Georgia does not have county clusters, I did whatever I could to limit the number of county splits across the state; it only split sixteen counties whereas the current Georgia Senate split a whopping thirty counties.

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I load a map that I was sure I completed, only for it to be nearly wiped out. It was completely jacked.

Here’s the story: I used a custom map as a starter to draw up a map. Twice before, I have had my map jacked by functionality issues, even if it were on a mobile phone or a PC. I likely had a file to the full map, though I might have to go back to my PC files. I am pretty sure I emailed the Feedback team about the issue; they should get back to me within a few days.

I’m gonna have to start over the map from scratch for the third time. This is frustrating enough.

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Many of you informed me that a mid-decade redistricting in Georgia is out of the question for 2028.

In 2013, the governor of Georgia was Nathan Deal, a Democrat-turned Republican who was a founding member of the Blue Dog Coalition. Back then, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division under the administration of then-President Barack Obama has required states to come up with some race-conscious districts. Georgia was one of them. That was before the Callais decision, when being race-conscious became a thing of the past for Southern lawmakers.

It is somehow possible to do a 12R-2D gerrymander of Georgia with the 2010 Census data. You can try drawing 12R-2D with 2020 Census data, but it might end up being 9R-5D or 8R-6D within the next twenty years due to Black migration to the Atlanta area.

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Screw it, Brian Kemp and Georgia Republicans are afraid of a blue wave in the Atlanta suburbs. While the rest of Georgia is trending right, the Atlanta suburbs are trending left. Black voters were what won Joe Biden the state's sixteen electoral votes in 2020. Along with his win were two flips from Republican to Democratic: David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler defeated by Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. Of course, both were forced into a runoff, as Georgia law requires the top two candidates to advance to a runoff if neither get 50% of the vote.

In 2026, Georgia Republicans were floating around the idea of a 2028 map that would eliminate up to two Democratic-leaning seats, which would've meant that longtime Democratic congressman Sanford Bishop and community activist-turned congresswoman Lucy McBath's political careers would've been placed in serious jeopardy. Right now, though, the redistricting push from Brian Kemp and Donald Trump is also in jeopardy.

This is perhaps my second attempt at a "Kempmander" or a Kemp gerrymander. View the map here: https://davesredistricting.org/join/da1a219e-e2a0-4cca-a261-f3ba97c98a97

Primary season has wrapped up in California. Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton advance to the general election, James Gallagher wins the special election in the 1st district in Northern California, and California is conducting elections under new congressional lines passed by 64% of the voters.

I can really expose the shortcomings of James Gallagher’s “New California” plan in a few ways. Biden won by only two points in 2020 with Trump winning by eight in 2024 (a ten-point swing towards the GOP). This area also voted in favor of mid-decade redistricting by only one point. Also, you can somehow draw eight Democrats and six Republicans in this proposed state that would probably die in committee.

Six months ago, I made a post on r/DavesRedistricting basically satirizing the idea, so I made a 8D-6R map. It reminded me of when I managed to make a 20D-19R map of a state which Trump won by 22 points.

The second image is Pres 2024, the third image is Prop 50 2025.

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Someone on this subreddit did one, so here’s my take on a minimal split Missouri, also known as Missourah if you live close to the South.

Started off in St. Louis before making my way through the rest of the state. It of course took time and effort to perfect it.

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Kansas Republicans couldn’t redraw the lines for 2026. Some Republicans in the Kansas General Assembly are seeking the possibility of having the lines redrawn for 2028.

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My first attempt at a Kempmander. Brian Kemp intended to have the lines redrawn for the 2028 elections, which coincide with the presidential election. This comes after the Supreme Court overruled race-based districts, especially those in the South.

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You decide. Normally, I start redistricting California with the Central Valley because of the political geography of this region. If you have any feedback, type in the comments!

Hispanics are a huge chunk of Nevada’s population. However, this map is abhorrent as hell as one district dips from Reno to Las Vegas.

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