Unless the republicans just give away $5000 dollar checks to every Texan, they are going to lose.
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So bad, they’re suing California for doing the same thing.
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If this doesn’t go their way, in a few years Repubs will just blame Dems for the gerrymander and vote to reverse it, like they are doing with mail-in voting.
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I have a question about the district in and around El Paso. In the neutral districts map it looks like it stretches across the entire western horn of the state. But in the gerrymandered map it is just the El Paso area. Did they just forget to add the border around the El Paso district in the former — because the number of people in the smaller blue district in the latter doesn’t change just because the colors around it change.
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Please also do this for blue states
Unless the republicans just give away $5000 dollar checks to every Texan, they are going to lose.
So bad, they’re suing California for doing the same thing.
If this doesn’t go their way, in a few years Repubs will just blame Dems for the gerrymander and vote to reverse it, like they are doing with mail-in voting.
I have a question about the district in and around El Paso. In the neutral districts map it looks like it stretches across the entire western horn of the state. But in the gerrymandered map it is just the El Paso area. Did they just forget to add the border around the El Paso district in the former — because the number of people in the smaller blue district in the latter doesn’t change just because the colors around it change.
**Data Sources:**
* [NYT Precinct Level Election Results](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/us/elections/2024-election-map-precinct-results.html)
* [Open Street Maps](https://www.openstreetmap.org/)
* [Texas Legislative Council, Plan PLANC2308 shapefiles (2025 districts)](https://data.capitol.texas.gov/dataset/planc2308/resource/c25d964b-9230-49dd-b677-edf862ad37be)
**Tools:** GeoPandas, Shapely, SciPy, Matplotlib, Contextily
**Method:** Neutral map generated using a clustering algorithm (equal-population K-Means)
**Additional context:**
If you’d like a full walkthrough of the methodology and code examples, check out my article: [Redistricting Texas: A Data-Driven Path to Fair Representation](https://medium.com/data-science-collective/redistricting-texas-a-data-driven-path-to-fair-representation-f69ea715b400)
They’re using a computer program. Humans can’t draw a map that unfair.
I’m confused what’s happening with that El Paso district, how is that not overpopulated in your “neutral” map
Also what is the criteria for neutral here because the “neutral” map is still heavily R biased
Imagine if we lived under a functioning benevolent government that served the people instead of whatever this is.