South Carolina:
Greenville +0.13 of a seat, Horry (Myrtle Beach) +0.11,
York (Rock Hill - I want to say that’s exurban Charlotte) +0.10, Richland (Columbia) + 0.09, and Charleston +0.08.
So the new seat could be anywhere. The largest vote totals were in the 2nd district (Joe Wilson) which stretches from Columbia southeast to Port Royal and Beaufort. This was a rather salient race with the opposing candidate well funded as I recall, so it’s not necessarily the district with the highest population growth. Several counties in the district voted straight Democrat (US House, Governor, and US Senate).
Currently the R’s lead the delegation 5-1. I don’t think it’s possible to draw 6 safe R seats — no better than 5-1 and a tossup.
You can. You basically take Clyburn’s district and swallow every single African American area in the state.
Runs into VRA trouble though.
5-1-1 is great, and hopefully we’ll see something similar in NC, GA & AL on 2012.