Congressional District Names (The Madness Returns)

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California

CA-01: North Coast
CA-02: North Central Valley
CA-03: Sacramento West
CA-04: Sierra Nevada
CA-05: Sacramento
CA-06: Marin-Sonoma
CA-07: Northeast bay
CA-08: San Francisco
CA-09: Berkeley-Oakland
CA-10: Contra Costa-Solano
CA-11: San Joaquin-Danville
CA-12: South San Francisco
CA-13: Alameda
CA-14: Silicon Valley
CA-15: Santa Clara
CA-16: San Jose
CA-17: Monterey
CA-18: Merced-Stockton
CA-19: Stanislaus-Yosemite
CA-20: West Central Valley
CA-21: North Fresno-Tulare
CA-22: Kern
CA-23: Ventura-Santa Barbara
CA-24: Central Coast
CA-25 Antelope Valley-Owens Valley
CA-26 North San Gabriel Valley-Rancho Cucamonga
CA-27 North San Fernando Valley
CA-28 Hollywood Hills-Central San Fernando Valley
CA-29 Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena
CA-30 Los Angeles Westside
CA-31 Hollywood-Eagle Rock
CA-32 South San Gabriel Valley
CA-33 Culver City-Wilshire-Los Feliz
CA-34 East Los Angeles
CA-35 South Los Angeles
CA-36 South Bay-San Pedro
CA-37 Carson-Compton-Long Beach
CA-38 Norwalk-Montebello-Pomona
CA-39 Paramount-Cerritos-Whittier
CA-40 Cypress-Fullerton-Orange
CA-41 Inland Empire
CA-42 North Orange County
CA-43 Ontario-San Bernardino
CA-44 Riverside-San Clemente
CA-45 Palm Springs-Mareno Valley
CA-46 Huntington Beach-Palos Verdes
CA-47 Anaheim-Santa Ana
CA-48 Irvine-Newport-Laguna
CA-49 North County San Diego
CA-50 North San Diego
CA-51 South San Diego-Imperial
CA-52 Inland San Diego
CA-53 Central San Diego

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Every so often I have a mad desire to give all the Congressional Districts names. It's happend again.
Need to work out some reasonable guidelines so...

1. Districts will be named in a similer way to U.K Constituencies and as if they were drawn by some federal body
2. Each State will be treated in the way each "county" is treated by the Boundary Commision
3. The counties containing large cities will be treated as if they are the large cities for practical reasons
4. The following are acceptable to be used in District Names:
a) Cities/Towns, Counties, States
b) Geographic regions, urban/suburban districts/subdivisions, certain physical geographic features (including rivers, valleys, hills), local landmarks
c) Historical regions or areas
d) North, South, East, West, Central, Mid (not in urban areas) and any accurate combination of the them (North East, South West etc)
e) Certain other words that are appropriate in individual circumstances (like High, Rural or Great)
d) &, - (in rare cases) , (in rare cases), with (in rare cases)

Hmm...I'm not sure I followed the rules very well, especially in Southern California...its just that with all the districts in the L.A. basin, there arent really geographic features/county distinctions to make naming easier and districts are often a gerrymandered cluster of localities...

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California with changes...

CA-01: North Coast
CA-02: North Central Valley
CA-03: Sacramento West
CA-04: Sierra Nevada
CA-05: Sacramento
CA-06: Marin-Sonoma
CA-07: Northeast bay
CA-08: San Francisco
CA-09: Berkeley
CA-10: Contra Costa-Solano
CA-11: San Joaquin
CA-12: South San Francisco
CA-13: Alameda
CA-14: Silicon Valley
CA-15: Santa Clara
CA-16: San Jose
CA-17: Monterey
CA-18: Merced-Stockton
CA-19: Yosemite
CA-20: West Central Valley
CA-21: Tulare
CA-22: Kern
CA-23: Ventura
CA-24: Central Coast
CA-25 Antelope-Owens Valleys
CA-26 North San Gabriel Valley
CA-27 North San Fernando Valley
CA-28 Central San Fernando Valley
CA-29 Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena
CA-30 Los Angeles Westside
CA-31 Hollywood
CA-32 South San Gabriel Valley
CA-33 Central Los Angeles
CA-34 East Los Angeles
CA-35 South Los Angeles
CA-36 South Bay
CA-37 Compton
CA-38 Norwalk-Montebello-Pomona
CA-39 San Gabriel River
CA-40 Fullerton
CA-41 Inland Empire
CA-42 North Orange County
CA-43 Ontario-San Bernardino
CA-44 Riverside
CA-45 Palm Springs
CA-46 Huntington Beach-Palos Verdes
CA-47 Anaheim-Santa Ana
CA-48 Irvine-Newport-Laguna
CA-49 North County San Diego
CA-50 North San Diego
CA-51 South San Diego
CA-52 Inland San Diego
CA-53 Central San Diego

CA-01: North Coast
CA-02: North Central Valley
CA-03: Sacramento West
CA-04: Sierra Nevada
CA-05: Sacramento
CA-06: Marin-Sonoma
CA-07: Northeast bay
CA-08: San Francisco
CA-09: Berkeley-Oakland
CA-10: Contra Costa-Solano
CA-11: San Joaquin-Danville
CA-12: South San Francisco
CA-13: Alameda
CA-14: Silicon Valley
CA-15: Santa Clara
CA-16: San Jose
CA-17: Monterey
CA-18: Merced-Stockton
CA-19: Stanislaus-Yosemite
CA-20: West Central Valley
CA-21: North Fresno-Tulare
CA-22: Kern
CA-23: Ventura-Santa Barbara
CA-24: Central Coast
CA-25 Antelope Valley-Owens Valley
CA-26 North San Gabriel Valley-Rancho Cucamonga
CA-27 North San Fernando Valley
CA-28 Hollywood Hills-Central San Fernando Valley
CA-29 Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena
CA-30 Los Angeles Westside
CA-31 Hollywood-Eagle Rock
CA-32 South San Gabriel Valley
CA-33 Culver City-Wilshire-Los Feliz
CA-34 East Los Angeles
CA-35 South Los Angeles
CA-36 South Bay-San Pedro
CA-37 Carson-Compton-Long Beach
CA-38 Norwalk-Montebello-Pomona
CA-39 Paramount-Cerritos-Whittier
CA-40 Cypress-Fullerton-Orange
CA-41 Inland Empire
CA-42 North Orange County
CA-43 Ontario-San Bernardino
CA-44 Riverside-San Clemente
CA-45 Palm Springs-Mareno Valley
CA-46 Huntington Beach-Palos Verdes
CA-47 Anaheim-Santa Ana
CA-48 Irvine-Newport-Laguna
CA-49 North County San Diego
CA-50 North San Diego

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New England

ME-1: Maine South (or Portland & Augusta)
ME-2: Maine North (or Madawaska)

NH-1: New Hampshire Southeast (or Manchester & Dover)
NH-2: New Hampshire West (or Concord & Nashua)

VT-AL: Vermont

MA-1: Massachusetts West (or Springfield West & Worcester North, or '' '' and the Berkshires)
MA-2: Springfield East & Worcester South
MA-3: Worcester Central & Attleboro
MA-4: Fall River-New Bedford & Newton
MA-5: Lawrence & Lowell
MA-6: Essex
MA-7: Boston North & Framingham (Framingham, Maldon & Medford)
MA-8: Boston Central
MA-9: Boston South & Brockton
MA-10: Cape Cod & Quincy

RI-1: Providence Northeast & Newport
RI-2: Providence Southwest & Warwick

CT-1: Hartford
CT-2: New London (or Connecticut East)
CT-3: New Haven
CT-4: Bridgeport & Stamford
CT-5: Waterbury, Litchfield & Danbury (or Connecticut West. Or you could add New Britain in there somewhere, but the name is pretty unwieldy as it is...)

Notes
1. Note that I haven't tried to include every distinct area within a district in the name; this is standard practice by the Boundary Commision although they stray from it at times (Inverness, some village, another village & a collection of villages where they make whisky)
2. Naming the MA districts was hell. There might be a case for including the names of either Cambridge or Somerville in Boston Central but I don't see it; both are de facto parts of Boston and on their own neither is large enough to be included in the name. Ironically the latter wouldn't be the case in most districts.

Well, at least the New England districts have British-sounding names that make it seem sensible to name them....  for some reason North San Gabriel Valley & Rancho Cucamonga doesn't seem as fitting as "Worcester Central & Attleboro"