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420foreverandalways t1_it3aogz wrote

Did you make sure you're not packing + cracking Black and Hispanic voters in Providence and surrounding cities? Newport looks pretty bad. That Jamestown district (very wealthy + white) taking some of the lower income, Blacker parts of Newport definitely doesn't look good. It looks like the same thing is happening with Cranston/South prov districts.

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Gerrymandering sucks, but that's different from ensuring that Black and Latino communities are represented at the state house. They've already been packed into geographically small communities, so when someone makes demographic-agnostic district maps, it's a good way to dilute their representation in the state house.

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Rick_LXIX_CDXX OP t1_it3ibi1 wrote

My main priority was geography and consistent river borders. For example, i worked around the Pawcatuck River and Pawtuxet River/Scituate Reservoir. In Providence, i made sure the Woonasquatucket River forms a boundary.

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420foreverandalways t1_it3kuut wrote

Yeah, that's a terrible methodology (unless your goal is a whiter, wealthier statehouse)

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