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Unique-Public-8594 t1_it27bzh wrote

Could you explain in 7 yo terms what this is? What patterns does it reveal? What is the significance of the numbers and colors?

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Rick_LXIX_CDXX OP t1_it2c4ii wrote

Each shape of one color is a district. Each district must have the same number of people living within it.

During an election, the voters participate in statewide elections, as well as the election within their district that only they get to vote in. Each district elects one state representative, and then all the representatives (one from each district throughout the state) convene to form the House of Representatives.

Because the representatives each represent a similar number of people, they each have an equal vote in the House of Representatives.

The districts all contain the same number of people, so smaller ones are more densely populated and larger ones are more rural. You can click on "Evaluate" in the top right corner to see various statistics about each district.

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Jazzbo64 t1_it27w2h wrote

Yes, please explain. My wife’s a state rep and I can’t make heads or tails of this.

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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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