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@gavinbena "What if congressional districts were drawn exclusively with compactness in mind without regard to race partisanship etc Well it's an imperfect exercise but I combined the most compact map for each state published to Dave's Redistricting into a single national map:"
X Link @gavinbena 2025-10-18T05:30Z 6731 followers, 23.8K engagements

"Going by the 2024 Presidential results: XXX districts would vote Harris by greater than XX% XX would vote Harris by XXX% to XX% XX would be in the XXX% range either way XX would vote Trump by XXX% to XX% XXX would vote Trump by greater than 10%"
X Link @gavinbena 2025-10-18T05:30Z 6731 followers, 2081 engagements

"This map has positives: states which are clear partisan gerrymanders such as Illinois Texas Florida North Carolina Tennessee & so on would have much more proportional delegations. Even states which are "soft" gerrymanders such as Connecticut would be more competitive"
X Link @gavinbena 2025-10-18T05:30Z 6732 followers, 2002 engagements

"Mississippi too XX% for Harris with a XX% black VAP would have its one majority-black district split into two Trump +5% seats likely resulting in an XXX% Republican delegation. The same would be true in many urban areas where communities of interest aren't well-respected"
X Link @gavinbena 2025-10-18T05:30Z 6732 followers, 1709 engagements

"when whatever God there may be reads the story of our universe I will be hiding from them between the pages of chapter XXX of the Missouri state statutes"
X Link @gavinbena 2025-10-08T17:47Z 6724 followers, XXX engagements

"As it turns out humans are complicated and people simply don't live in perfect bubbles. This map would benefit millions gerrymandered into silence but it'd come at the expense of millions of others & confirms compact districts alone can't ensure fair representation"
X Link @gavinbena 2025-10-18T05:30Z 6732 followers, 1566 engagements

"@tex_cynic @AxelOVarela states don't have a right to secede "slaves didn't have voting rights to protect" is a pretty insane way to try and justify not protecting those rights"
X Link @gavinbena 2025-10-19T04:43Z 6731 followers, XX engagements