Everyone as Daily Kos Elections knows that I've utilized Dave's App a good number of times to butcher my great state into a a bunch of beautiful Elgin BBQ sausages and barbacoa-lite fajita strips.
I dont think I'd ever quite contented myself until a few weeks ago when a few ideas got stuck in my head of which I hadn't yet thought. With all these new ideas swirling in my head, I went to work combining them with my old prescriptions about the way a map in Texas should be drawn (with due consideration given to a few requests by a Republican friend from RRH that didn't impact - and actually, in fact, aided - the quality of the Democratic districts, such as keeping the Dallas area Park Cities in a Republican-held district) to create what I now view as my masterpiece.
Below the fold I present a lot of information. In addition to the standard fare (pictures, descriptions, voting age and total population racial demographics, partisanship, etc.) I estimate other metrics which I view as important for the holistic picture. As such, a few moments will be taken to explain the assumptions in my modeling.
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