Congressional redistricting in Michigan was controlled entirely by Republicans, which allowed them to draw a gerrymander aimed at protecting all of their seats and eliminating Gary Peters. Given how control of the state government was divided from 2002-2010, I wondered what the map would look like had the state courts been forced to draw it. Michigan has a statute which requires congressional districts to split no more than 1 county with another district, but it only applies if the court were drawing the lines. As such, I followed that rule with one exception for the VRA in Wayne County.
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