Topo(il)logical
Here's a nice reference for maps of the several States' Congressional districts. In general, I was pleasantly surprised by how little topologically absurd districts there were, especially with Texas. It has been in the news for Tom Delay's map that it looks like will have three Democrat incumbants lose to the incumbant Republicans who are now in their districts. He was at least able to gerrymander in a way that doesn't look obviously gerrymandered. A few that just seem really screwy to an outsider (or an insider for that matter):
- Arizona District 2 -- It contains the Grand Canyon and the northwest Phoenix suburbs and the Hopi Reservation, but not the Navajo Nation, which happens to surrounds the Hopi Resevation (and has a part inside the Hopi Reservation too).
- Illinois District 17 -- It's a little weird.
- New York District 8 and District 12 -- Perhaps in an effort to keep people's offices and bedrooms in the same district, District 8 has the West Side of Manhatten and then a part of southwestern Bronx, and then crazy District 12 that has four disjoint regions--2 in Manhatten, 1 entirely in the Bronx and one strattling the Bronx-Queens border.
- North Carolina
- District 3 -- Maybe the "Lighthouse District"?
- District 12 -- Charlotte and Winston-Salem and High Point in the same district?
- District 13 -- It contains parts of Raleigh and parts of Greensboro but none of Durham or Orange Counties.
- District 3 -- Maybe the "Lighthouse District"?
- Tennessee District 7 -- Shelby County suburbs and Davidson County suburbs in the same district? Oh and then throw in Clarksville.
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