Compact majority-minority districts almost never exist

by Boris Alexeev and Dustin G. Mixon

Abstract

For a uniformly distributed population, we show that with high probability, any majority-minority voting district containing a fraction of the population necessarily exhibits a tiny Polsby-Popper score.

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Boris Alexeev and Dustin G. Mixon
Compact majority-minority districts almost never exist

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