The Personal Computer vs. The Voting Rights Act

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Wednesday October 28, 2015 · 5:54 PM PDT

2015/10/28 · 17:54

This is just a little shameless self-promotion. Thanks to the inspiring work of many on this site, I was compelled to write an article on the Shelby County v. Holder decision in the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review. SPSS was used to generate most of the data (from the census).

Below the fold is the abstract and the citation (so you can look it up at your local library/database).

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Monday September 07, 2015 · 2:58 PM PDT

2015/09/07 · 14:58

Missouri Political Geography

I. Kansas City Metropolitan Area (18% of the State’s Population)

This diary will not be exploring the political geography of the Kansas side of the Kansas City, Mo metropolitan area (“KC”); that will be explored in a forthcoming diary: Kansas Political Geography. For the purposes of this diary, the KC area is defined as Jackson, Platte, Clay, and Cass counties.

A. Jackson County (Obama 2012: 59%, Population: 683K)
Jackson County is the most populous in the metro and is home to the urban core of KCMO; the city extends into the surrounding counties, but the historic and population core of the city is in Jackson. Approximately half of Jackson County’s population lives in Kansas City, the remainder live in Independence, Grandview, Lees Summit, Blue Springs, and smaller surrounding communities. A large percentage of the area’s African-American and Hispanic voters are located in Kansas City; accordingly most KCMO precincts have expected Democratic performances in the 70-90% range. Similarly, Grandview (pop. 25K) and Raytown (pop. 29K) have sizable minority populations and strong Democratic preferences. Independence is still largely Democratic, a combination of demosaurs and a decent size minority population on the northwest side of the city. Blue Springs and Lees Summit are much more Republican than their county brethren, Democrats here have little strength outside of rental housing communities. Rural eastern Jackson county retains a little bit more demosaur strength, with AA rep Emanuel Cleaver still winning in many of these areas.

More below the fold.

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109 votes Show Results

Best Region for Democrats to run offense?

109 votes Vote Now!

Best Region for Democrats to run offense?

Affluent western St. Louis suburbs

40 votes

White Catholics of southern St. Louis suburbs

24 votes

White, working class small and midsize cities in Southern Missouri

13 votes

Central Missouri demosaur country

8 votes

The KC suburbs

24 votes

Missouri 6-2 (and de-lurking)

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Tuesday December 17, 2013 · 5:08 PM PST

2013/12/17 · 17:08

Hello all. I have been a long time lurker here and at SSP (occasional contributor at SSP all those years ago). As a daily reader, I felt that my state (Missouri, hence the KC related name) has been underserved by redistricting diaries. There is a real chance that Republican-turned-Dem AG Chris Koster will hold the governorship for us in 2020 and we may even gain seats in the leg (can't get much worse).

So, I wanted my official de-lurking to be a 6-2 Dem gerrymander of Missouri. This is working on the assumption that population change/relaxed VRA scrutiny may allow for no VRA districts in Missouri. With that in mind, no community of interest was spared in creating this bullet-proof 6-2 Map. Details below the fold.

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100 votes Show Results

Will we get a Dem gerrymander in MO?

100 votes Vote Now!

Will we get a Dem gerrymander in MO?

Yes we can!

18 votes

Not if the Cleaver machine is still running

13 votes

Never, parochial interests will trump partisan concerns

54 votes

Non-sectarian Apple Pie

15 votes

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