Using several aspects of the Georgia Dem's hideous 2002 gerrymander, I created a 7-7 Georgia with 5 majority-minority districts: 2 majority-black districts, 2 plurality-black districts, and a plurality-white coalition district. It's obviously unrealistic, but why not try? I made some new district numbers becuase some of the current ones make absolutely no sense. Here's the map: (I realize it is cut off a bit for some reason, and I can't seem to fix it. Just click through to see the whole thing.)
GA-1 (Blue): Jack Kingston/Austin Scott?
Kingston lives in Savannah and technically gets drawn into the new Democratic GA-14, but this is similar to his current district. Austin Scott gets drawn into Sanford Bishop's district, but could run here as well. Similar to the 2002 gerrymander, it grabs heavily Republican portions of Houston County to help Marshall and Bishop. It gets even more Republican than its current R+16.
McCain: 70.4%, Obama: 28.8%
White: 70.9%, Black: 19.3%; VAP: White: 73.4%, Black: 18.7%
Safe R
GA-2 (Green): Sanford Bishop
The district goes from majority-white to plurality-black, and becomes a couple points more Democratic than its D+1 predecessor, and considering he survived 2010 in its current incarnation, Bishop's probably safe.
Obama: 58.2%, McCain: 41.3%
Black: 50.7%, White: 42.3%; VAP: Black: 48.4%, White: 45.4%
Likely D
GA-3 (Dark Magenta): Lynn Westmoreland
This district shrinks a bit in size, as the state is adding a district, but the partisan composition changes little from its current R+19.
McCain: 62.8%, Obama: 36.2%
White: 64.6%, Black: 25.8%, VAP: White: 67.5%, Black: 24.4%
Safe R
GA-4 (Red): Phil Gingrey?
This most closely resembles the current GA-11, which has an R+20 PVI. Gingrey, who holds the current GA-11, is drawn into either the black-majority GA-5 or Tom Graves' GA-10, so he'd probably run here.
McCain: 67.4%, Obama: 31.3%
White: 74.3%, Black: 15.5%; VAP: White: 77.1%, Black: 14.7%
Safe R
GA-8 (Slate Blue): Jim Marshall?
Austin Scott, gets drawn into GA-2, and could run in GA-1, or here. Jim Marshall has said he would wait to see the new lines before making a decision about 2012. This new version contains many of the same rural counties as the 2002 gerrymander and reaches an arm out to nap the Democratic stronghold of Athens. Considering he won 57-43 in 2008, even as the district went 56-43 for McCain, and lost by just 5.4% in 2010, Marshall's a pretty sure bet in a district that narrowly went for Obama. This goes from R+10 to around R+4 or R+5.
Obama: 50.2%, McCain: 48.9%
White: 53.6%, Black: 38.0%; VAP: White: 57.1%, Black: 35.5%
Likely D for Marshall, Tossup otherwise
GA-10 (Pink): Tom Graves
This resembles the current GA-6, which has an R+19 PVI. Tom Price, the current GA-6 officeholder, is drawn into the new black-plurality version of GA-6, and would probably run in the new GA-11, which ironically resembles Tom Graves' old district. Graves is drawn into this GA-10 district. If you lost me there, basically there are two districts that resemble each other, but the incumbents (Graves & Price) swap districts because their homes get swapped.
McCain: 67.8%, Obama: 30.8%
White: 76.1%, Black: 10.5%; VAP: White: 78.5%
Safe R
GA-11 (Chartreuse): Tom Price?
Resembles current GA-9, with an R+28 PVI. See GA-10 for explanation. Price, who lives in Roswell, is drawn out, but would likely run here.
McCain: 71.2%, Obama: 21.6%
White: 78.5%, Hispanic: 10.1%; VAP: White: 81.3%
Safe R
GA-12 (Cornflower Blue): Paul Broun?
This is similar to the current GA-10, which has an R+15 PVI. Broun, who lives in Athens, is drawn out, but would run here, as it most resembles his current district. On the other hand, I certainly wouldn't mind if the male version of Michelle Bachmann decided to run in 8th and give Jim Marshall a free ride back to Congress.
McCain: 70.6%, Obama: 28.3%
White: 69.7%, Hispanic: 13.0%, Black: 10.0%; VAP: White: 73.6%, Hispanic: 10.7%
Safe R
GA-13 (Dark Salmon): Rob Woodall/New GOP Rep?
Rob Woodall is drawn into the swingy new GA-7, and could run here if he wants a safe district. Some ambitious state legislator could run here if Woodall doesn't.
McCain: 68.1%, Obama: 30.9%
White: 74.4%, Black: 17.2%; VAP: White: 76.5%, Black: 16.5%
Safe R
GA-14 (Olive): John Barrow
This district becomes several points more Democratic than its current D+1, which would give us the chance to replace Barrow with a more progressive Democrat without putting the seat in play.
Obama: 56.5%, McCain: 42.9%
White: 48.1%, Black: 42.7%; VAP: White: 51.8%, Black: 40.2%
Safe D for Barrow, Likely D otherwise
Atlanta Area:
GA-5 (Gold): David Scott
This closely resembles the current GA-13, which is D+15. The current GA-13 is plurality white, and this is a black-majority district.
Obama: 74.0%, McCain: 25.2%
Black: 56.4%, White: 23.5%, Hispanic: 14.1%
VAP: Black: 54.3%, White: 28.0%, Hispanic: 12.0%
Safe D
GA-6 (Teal): John Lewis
This resembles the current GA-5, which is majority-black and has a PVI of D+26. Although this isn't majority-black, neither is the current GA-13, which is plurality-white, so there won't be any VRA issues. There are just enough white Democrats to make it a solid Obama district.
Obama: 68.6%, McCain: 30.6%
Black: 45.1%, White: 40.1%; VAP: Black: 43.6%, White: 42.9%
Safe D
GA-7 (Gray): Hank Johnson
Similar to the current GA-4, this district is now composed entirely of DeKalb County, and is probably similar to its current D+24 PVI.
Obama: 79.2%, McCain: 20.0%
Black: 53.6%, White: 29.4%; VAP: Black: 51.5%, White: 32.5%
Safe D
GA-9 (Cyan): Rob Woodall?
This new suburban Atlanta district takes out all the swingy or Democratic areas in the current GA-3, GA-6, and GA-7. It is already a swing district that is rapidly trending Democratic, and should be solidly in our column by the end of the decade. Woodall could choose to run in this new D+1 district or jump ship to the new GA-13.
Obama: 53.6%, McCain: 45.6%
White: 36.8%, Black: 32.2%, Hispanic: 20.6%
VAP: White: 41.1%, Black: 30.4%, Hispanic: 18.2%
Lean D now; Likely D by 2020