Like I was saying, I've never been to Elizabeth City, so I came down to the water to look around a bit 😊 so pretty!
Also look at this absolutely gorgeous building 🤤
Getting a matcha latte at Muddy Waters Coffeehouse
Needed gas so I took the opportunity to stop at Edenton's historic waterfront
Does anyone know what this style of architecture is called? I really love it - This is The Chowan Herald building in Edenton

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16 Sep
The 2011 NC maps really got in people's heads that gerrymandering = ugly non-compact districts.

But guess what? When the Congressional maps were redrawn to be much more compact in 2016 they had exactly the same partisan result.
I'm seeing a lot of people at hearings ask for compact districts and equate this with fair districts. What I suspect they want is districts that don't split the cities, neighborhoods, and precincts they know.

But making a map compact could very well mean creating more splits.
Cities, which are probably the most relevant political division for most people, are by nature not compact - especially here in North Carolina where we do fun things like let them have discontiguous parts.
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16 Sep
Here at Pitt Community College in Winterville for the redistricting public hearing! Let's hope legislators obey the signs this time 🙄 Image
With 5 minutes to go the hearing room is filling up. Image
Omg they're wearing masks! Image
Read 51 tweets
15 Sep
After walking fully around the building to find an open door (which was for some reason not the one in front of the actual entrance to the auditorium) I'm here at Nash County Community College for tonight's Joint Redistricting Committee public hearing! Image
I believe I saw Rep. Linda Cooper-Suggs in the parking lot but I don't see any legislators in the room as of yet.
Sen. Carl Ford is leading the meeting.
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15 Sep
Just to answer a question this thread brought up:
I'm not asking anyone to get on complex software and draw a district that complies with a huge list of non-partisan redistricting criteria! I'm just asking people to talk about their communities and needs in a way that's specific.
If you say something like "Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point share industry, educational and cultural institutions, and have similar concerns as urban areas that are different from the surrounding rural areas, and therefore should be in the same Congressional district."
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15 Sep
Sure, but 1) public comments also go into the public record and can be impactful during any future litigation 2) We just don't have evidence that process comments are influential in the same way 3) Conceding pre-emptively is not a strategy I want to promote to anyone
Also even if you're happy with your district as it is now, population growth means districts will inevitably change this year, especially in the highest growth places (eg the Triangle.)
Wake and Mecklenburg are gaining two whole state House districts each! There's no guarantee that your district will stay the same so if you like it, you need to defend what you lik about it in a specific manner.
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14 Sep
Y'all one thing I have to say - I am concerned that people are not making effective comments at public hearings - that they're making comments that can be easily ignored by the redistricting committee.
If you show up and talk about wanting an independent commission, or say you want fair maps without saying what that means in a very granular and specific way you are giving the committee license to ignore you.
The response from the legislators running the committee to those kinds of comments are basically going to be 1) we don't have an independent commission, so too bad, we're drawing the maps 2) we think the maps we're drawing *are* "fair"
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