I forgot you might be considering normies (non-electoral history nerds) in your reply. ;-D
“NJ and IL have voted the same way...”
And we’re both are known for super corrupt rats and RINOs, peas (piss) in a pod (pot), us and NJ. ;-d I was trying to figure out how NJ should be chopped up in the grand state redistricting.
How solid are you on Louisiana for Clinton?
Clinton beat Bush by 45.58% to 40.97% in LA in 1992. With Perot getting only 11.81% of the vote, there is no way that his dropping out and not being on the ballot would have given Bush the votes that he needed to beat Clinton. My assumption is that, in 1992, Bush could net not more than 25%-33% of the Perot vote (since Clinton would get a not insignificant chunk of that, plus many Perot voters would stay home); for Bush to beat Clinton in LA, he would need to net over 39% of the Perot vote, which I deem inconceivable.
As for how to gerrymander NJ to produce a GOP state, I would attach the heavily RAT areas (but not the GOP or marginal areas) in Hudson, Essex, Union, Bergen, Passaic and NE Middlesex counties to the new State of New York (which would include only Manhattan, the Bronx, most of Queens and Brooklyn, western Nassau, and Democrat areas in Westchester and Rockland from the current NY), attach the heavily RAT areas (but not the GOP or marginal areas) in Camden, Burlington, Mercer, Somerset and western Middlesex counties to the new State of Philadelphia (which would include Philly, southern Bucks County and RAT parts of Montgomery, Delaware and Chester counties from PA, plus New Castle County from DE), and add Staten Island and the GOP parts of Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island to what’s left of NJ to form the new State of New Jersey. The new NJ would look terrible on the map, but would have a solid GOP majority.