Redistricting Plan

This maps aims for partisan proportionality while complying with the VRA to the fullest extent possible. Texas voted 53%R-47%D in the 2020 presidential election. This map has 20 Republican seats and 18 Democratic seats, for a 53%-47% split. This map also contains 11 Latino-majority districts, up from 8 in previous state-approved plan and 6 in the recently enacted map. This map also contains three districts that will elect Black voters' candidates of choice, similar to the state-approved plans. On top of those 14 districts, this map contains a Black-Latino coalition district (38) that is over 50% by Black and Latino CVAP, satisfying Gingles prong 1. However, it is unknown if a court would find Black and Latino voters to be politically cohesive given Latinos' rightward shift in Texas in 2020. Some of the Latino districts are not strongly Democratic. However, this should not impair their functionality as VRA districts, because in order for the districts to turn Republican, Latino political cohesion would need to decline to a level where the VRA no longer requires Latino districts. Minority districts are almost all based on prior districts or fairly compact, such that they would very likely survive Shaw challenges. The two coalition districts are more vulnerable to Shaw, though I believe both would still survive.