Every ten years, the US Census Bureau is responsible for counting everyone in America. And every ten years, America’s cantankerous cartographers dust off their credentials and get their hands dirty creating house and senate district maps that are relatively even in population, so that no one representative in government has more constituents than their colleagues. As it turns out, people do move around from time to time.
While the districts may be equal in population, they aren’t equal in size, and they can definitely look funky as they consider neighborhoods, town boundaries and waterways as borders. Learn how your district might be changing at riredistricting.org.
At Motif, we took a look at some of RI’s strangest-looking districts and asked: what does this look like?
Senate Plan C: District 35
Mike: Trump bobblehead
Bradly: Johnny Bravo in retirement, with a shorter haircut and a beer belly.
Rico: Elvis, but towards the end
Alfredo: Michael Jackson learning to moonwalk.
House Plan A: District 18
Mike: Stork delivering a baby that’s trying to escape and has crawled from the beak to the back of the bird and is now contemplating jumping.
Rico: Plasma pistol from Halo
Bradly: A curious toucan
Alfredo: A toilet on top of a cliff
House Plan B: District 16
Mike: Beaver with a tail that got caught in a bear trap. Or a soccer player from the perspective of a ball that just got kicked.
Bradly: Squirrel with a tragic deformity
Rico: Weird Rabbit horse thing from the Dark Crystal
Alfredo: Michael Jordan dunking
House Plan C: District 9
Mike: Shaved poodle from the East Side
Rico: Long Triceratops
Bradly: Three-legged miniature schnauzer. Or a Dr. Seuss character.
Alfredo: Thumb character from Spy Kids with his arms cut off
House Plan D: District 60
Mike: Velociraptor, possibly with a herniated disk
Bradly: Pterodactyl with a kite tail
Rico: Someone doing a Naruto run
Alfredo: A fighter jet
Senate Plan B: District 6
Rico: Earthworm Jim
Mike: Kangaroo with a crazy New Year’s hat
Bradly: The knight from Monty Python after his limbs have been removed
Alfredo: A mountain and Rafiki from Lion King holding up Simba
