oregon’s the blue state i recognize on that list:
- Partisan Fairness F - Significant Democratic advantage. Advantages incumbents
- Competitiveness- F - Very uncompetitive relative to other maps that could have been drawn
- Geographic Features - C - Compact districts, typical number of county splits
there’s none of the wild zigzagging of somewhere like texas. and that’s what – for me at least – i think about when i hear gerrymandering ( but maybe i would feel differently if the divide was reversed? )
i dunno. maybe explicitly balancing the parties is a good goal? but what happens when only a small percentage is affiliated with the other party?
at any rate, it would be nice to have some clear guidelines to draw maps. ( mainly so that the purpleish states aren’t getting so totally worked over. )
