Texas takes a couple of hours to draw and another hour or so to fill in precinct you may have missed. This is my version of a court drawn map. This is my first try at Texas. Texas' numbering is too confusing, so I started from from the top of the state at district one and worked on down from there, so not to confuse things. Democrats could win up to 15 seats here and at least 11 are safe or fairly safe. I tried to name each seat as best as I could. I think I got everything right, it's hard to keep track of what district each incumbent will be in.
TX-1: Amarillo (Blue)
Mac Thornberry
76% McCain, 23% Obama
TX-2: Lubbock (Green)
Randy Neugebauer
73% McCain, 27% Obama
TX-3: El Paso (Purple)
Silvestre Reyes
65% Obama, 34% McCain
TX-4: Laredo (Cadet Blue)
Henry Cuelllar
51% Obama, 48% McCain
76% Hispanic.
TX-5: Rio Grande (Medium Spring Green)
OPEN
51% Obama, 48% McCain
74% Hispanic. This one is a little hard to title since it didn't have enough of any larger city to have a proper name.
TX-6: McAllen (Teal)
Ruben Hinojosa
57% Obama, 42% McCain
80% Hispanic
TX-7: Brownsville, Corpus Christi (Gray)
OPEN
58% Obama, 41% McCain
79% Hispanic.
That's a total of four Hispanic seats in the southern part of the state and I think I got the percentages right. Let's move further up.
TX-8: Bexar West (Turquoise)
Charlie Gonzales
60% Obama, 39% McCain
71% Hispanic.
TX-9: Bexar East (Royal Blue)
Joaquin Castro
63% Obama, 36% McCain
62% Hispanic. This is a modified version of what the Republican legislature's map put Lloyd Doggest in.
TX-10: Austin (Orchid)
Lloyd Doggett
67% Obama, 33% McCain
Austin gets a decent seat, finally.
TX-11: Bexar North (Chartreuse)
Lamar Smith
58% McCain, 41% Obama
TX-12: San Angelo (Cornflower Blue)
Mike Conaway
67% McCain, 32% Obama
TX-13: Kileen-Round Rock (Salmon)
John Carter
55% McCain, 44% Obama
TX-14: Waco (Olive)
Bill Flores
62% McCain, 37% Obama
TX-15: Abilene (Orange)
OPEN
74% McCain, 25% Obama
TX-16: Denton (Lime)
Michael Burgess
68% McCain, 31% Obama
TX-17: Ft. Worth (Purple)
Kay Granger
54% Obama, 45% McCain
This may look odd, but I followed the city lines of Ft. Worth to create a district strongly focused on the city. At D+1, it would be a prime opportunity.
TX-18: Tarrant (Yellow)
Kenny Marchant
63% McCain, 36% Obama
Odd looking because of Ft. Worth city lines.
TX-19: Dallas Central (Yellow Green)
OPEN
64% Obama, 35% McCain
58% Hispanic and reasonably compact for a VRA seat.
TX-20: Garland-Richardson (Pink)
Jeb Hensarling
51% Obama, 48% McCain
A swing district.
TX-21: Arlington-Dallas South (Maroon)
Eddie Bernice Johnson
72% Obama, 27% McCain
TX-22: Farmers Branch (Brown)
Pete Sessions
59% McCain, 40% Obama
TX-23: Plano (Aquamarine)
Sam Johnson
61% McCain, 38% Obama
TX-24: Greenville (Indigo)
OPEN
69% McCain, 30% Obama
TX-25: Tyler (Violet)
Joe Barton, Louie Gohmert
70% McCain, 29% Obama
TX-26: Texarkana (Gray)
Ralph Hall
69% McCain, 30% Obama
TX-27: Lufkin-Orange (Spring Green)
OPEN
70% McCain, 29% Obama
TX-28: Conroe (Plum)
Kevin Brady
72% McCain, 27% Obama
TX-29: Beaumont-Galveston (Dark Sea Green)
OPEN
56% McCain, 43% Obama
Paging Nick Lampson.
TX-30: Harris Central (Coral)
Sheila Jackson Lee
78% Obama, 21% McCain
38% Black.
TX-31: Harris East (Beige)
56% Obama, 43% McCain
73% Hispanic
TX-32: Harris North (Orange Red)
Ted Poe
67% McCain, 32% Obama
TX-33: Village (Forest Green)
John Culberson
57% McCain, 42% McCain
I couldn't think of a name, so I just named it Village because there were so many places with village in the name there.
TX-34: Harris South (Lime Green)
Al Green
77% Obama, 22% McCain
35% Black
TX-35: Sugar Land (Dark Orchid)
Pete Olson
59% McCain, 40% Obama
Not the country group, but Tom DeLay's old constituency.
TX-36: Lake Jackson (Orange)
OPEN
63% McCain, 36% Obama