Write your state representative and senator and let them know anything short of 6-0...

I’m not a moron and can look at a population distribution map, so I know that any reasonably drawn map in Louisiana will include at least one district that is purple if not blue leaning, centered on Orleans Parish.

So no, I won’t be making absurd demands for 6 safe red districts.

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will include at least one district that is purple if not blue leaning, centered on Orleans Parish.

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North Shore and surrounding parishes in the 6-0 map will neutralize Orleans. Plus Orleans is losing population. It’s the fastest shrinking large metro area in the U.S. for two consecutive years, with a decline of over 39,000 residents from 2020 to 2024.

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North Shore and surrounding parishes in the 6-0 map will neutralize Orleans.

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Most years, probably. But not certainly always, and besides, you can't put the whole Northshore in with OP. It would almost certainly need to just be St. Tammany and Washington to go along with St. Bernard and Plaquemines--unless you're going to start doing stupid shite like parceling up Madisonville/Mandeville/Covington across multiple districts.

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Most years, probably. But not certainly always,

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How can Orleans come back. NOLA is done growing.

I didn’t even mention this yet…Wait until the mega industrial projects kick off up and down the river south of Baton Rouge. Gonzales and White Castle down past Edgard is going to explode with MAGA plant baws.

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5-1 is acceptable as long as the 1 isn’t Cleo

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And as long as it doesn’t look like a beat-down anaconda.

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We want a map with no gerrymandering.

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F*CK THAT!

As long as blue states are going to gerrymander the f*ck out of their states to eliminate as many possible Republican seats as they can, then it’s up to Red States to do the same. Otherwise, Democrats will be disproportionally represented in Congress.

Remember, California started this sh!t. When Texas tried to follow suit by coming up with a map that wasn’t as bad as California, but better than it had been, the Democrats went f*cking ballistic and started this gerrymandering war.

Not because Texas didn’t have the right to do it. Not because Texas was just following the example of California. No. It was because they claimed Texas couldn’t do it that long after the census came in. There’s no law saying that. There's no historical precedence saying that. They were just making up sh!t so that they didn’t have to justify their own filthy f*cking gerrymandering.

For years, the Democrats have engaged in blatant gerrymandering. However, whenever red states have done the same, they have screamed racism citing an obscene and absurd reading of Section 2 of the voting Rights Act. They honestly believe that only they have the right to gerrymander.

Once again, F*CK THAT.

Yeah, write your Rep and Senator.
That’ll do it.

Other states do it, though - and it works.
Connecticut went 58-40 Kamala over Trump Lousiana went 60-38 for Trump.

Yet Connecticut has no Republican reps, despite the fact that the state could easily draw a map with a Republican leaning district in the west or in the east.

It would just as easy - if not easier, for Louisiana to draw a map with all Republican majority districts.

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So no, I won’t be making absurd demands for 6 safe red districts.

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While I agree with you, broadly, in light of what has happened, it would not be absurd.

Sketchy? Maybe. A stretch? Definitely. But certainly not as absurd as a lot of these 55 - 45 states with 0 to 1 red seat.

Let's take Massachusetts for example - that's roughly a 60/40 state. You can stretch to make it a clear 2 to 1. Given that it is historically one of the classically "liberal of the liberal" states and how things work, recognizing that a clean 6 - 3 split would be, while fair and reasonable, unexpected. They're not 7 - 2 or even 8 - 1. They're 9-0.

Is that absurd?

Nah, you do it.