{"id":13446,"date":"2021-08-13T10:13:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T15:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=13446"},"modified":"2021-09-22T20:38:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T01:38:13","slug":"mocking-iowas-2020s-congressional-districts-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/08\/mocking-iowas-2020s-congressional-districts-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Mocking Iowa&#8217;s 2020s congressional districts (5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The actual 2020 census numbers came out yesterday, in extremely large and complex files meant to be interpreted by extremely expensive and complex software. I am but a simply country blogger of limited means. So, in order to get fast numbers, I had to take the brute force approach:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/visualizations\/interactive\/2020-population-and-housing-state-data.html\">Stumble upon this interactive map<\/a>, go to Iowa, select county-level data, and manually enter 100 lines.<\/p>\n<p>Behold, Mock 13, on Friday the 13th, which like my <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/03\/mocking-iowas-2020s-congressional-districts\/\">first mock redistricting<\/a> presents Ashley Hinson with her worst nightmare: Johnson County. (I did some other maps in the interim. Mock 12 was a self-check of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleedingheartland.com\/2021\/08\/08\/iowa-redistricting-predictions-part-5-data-almost-here\/\">this proposal at Bleeding Heartland<\/a>, which appears to have used 2018[?] estimates and substantially undercounted Dallas County.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/maps\/congmockmap13.png\" width=\"461\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LOOK AT THAT THIRD DISTRICT. IT&#8217;S SO PRETTY. Number-wise, I mean, and map-wise, kinda too. But remember when I said that working on Polk County-centric districts <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/04\/mocking-iowas-2020s-congressional-districts-2\/\">often led to a busted map<\/a> because east-central Iowa kept throwing things off? A similar thing happened here. I played with different reconfigurations of the counties on\/north of I-80 \u2014 only to realize, in separate maps, I&#8217;d forgotten to include Lee and Wayne counties \u2014 and landed on this when I said good enough. There&#8217;s a variation that swaps out the northern ones for Johnson, and it fits within my self-imposed 1000-person deviation, but it&#8217;s not as close to the ideal.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the partisan breakdowns, I don&#8217;t know if the Legislature would bite on this one. <em>Any<\/em> map that puts Johnson and Linn together could meet resistance &#8230; unless the state legislators are very happy with how <em>their<\/em> districts turn out.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Better map placed shortly after post time.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 9\/22: Fixed slight Scott County population error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The actual 2020 census numbers came out yesterday, in extremely large and complex files meant to be interpreted by extremely expensive and complex software. I am but a simply country blogger of limited means. So, in order to get fast &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/08\/mocking-iowas-2020s-congressional-districts-5\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13446"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13565,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13446\/revisions\/13565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}