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Personal statement
My unorthodox methods of making this map may provide points of interest. l cared not for the majority/minority scale and the competitiveness of each district in particular, although I unintentionally made the majority of districts competitive. I would go back and change them, but it conflicts with something I cared about far more.
What I actively made an effort to do was keep the shapes of all my districts simple. As such, I broke a number of county lines to do it. Most districts I have are as rounded or as square as they can be. Obviously, this was to avoid gerrymandering, but it serves a greater purpose than that. I tried my hardest to create these shapes to show that the natural shapes of the counties and census tracts are really stupid.
My bluntness is only a testament to how weirdly these things are shaped. I can understand why they are so, but they are holding the government back from doing anything neatly. If they can be changed, they need to be changed, but I digress.
Equal population is also something that interested me, because that is needed for any semblance of fairness.
My interest in fixing this problem is a mixed bag. I care about this because it could very well influence my future, but at the same time, since the adults who are supposed to be our voice continue to cause these problems, my interest waxes and wanes.. I hope, like most people do, to live to see a brighter future with less greedy people.
