Names for U.S. congressional districts

[kcguy]

Years ago, I took some data from the 2000 census, and I wrote a computer program to design districts.  (The results were decidedly mixed.)  Anyhow, I then tried to give each of my made-up districts an English-style constituency name.  I no longer have the results, but I do have a list of the names.

(Sorry if this is off-topic.)

AL:  (1) Birmingham; (2) East Alabama; (3) Mobile; (4) North Alabama; (5) North East Alabama; (6) South Alabama; (7) Tuscaloosa and Alabaster.
AK:  (1) Alaska.
AZ:  (1) Mesa; (2) North Arizona; (3) Phoenix East; (4) Phoenix North; (5) Phoenix West; (6) Tucson North and Pinal; (7) Tucson South and South East Arizona; ( West Arizona.
AR:  (1) Mid Arkansas; (2) North East Arkansas; (3) North West Arkansas; (4) South Arkansas.
CA:  (1) Anaheim; (2) Bakersfield; (3) Bay Area North; (4) Citrus Heights; (5) Contra Costa and San Rafael; (6) El Monte; (7) Fremont and Livermore; ( Fresno; (9) Garden Grove; (10) Irvine; (11) Long Beach; (12) Los Angeles Central; (13) Los Angeles East; (14) Los Angeles Hollywood; (15) Los Angeles Mid Valley; (16) Los Angeles North and Antelope Valley; (17) Los Angeles North East; (18) Los Angeles South East; (19) Los Angeles South West; (20) Los Angeles West Valley; (21) Los Angeles Westside; (22) Modesto and Merced; (23) Monterey Bay; (24) Moreno Valley and Temecula; (25) North East California; (26) North West California; (27) Oakland; (28) Oceanside; (29) Ontario; (30) Palm Springs and El Centro; (31) Pomona; (32) Riverside; (33) Roseville and Tahoe; (34) Sacramento; (35) San Bernardino; (36) San Diego Central; (37) San Diego North; (38) San Diego South; (39) San Francisco; (40) San Jose North; (41) San Jose South; (42) San Mateo; (43) Santa Ana; (44) Santa Barbara; (45) Santa Rosa; (46) South San Gabriel Valley; (47) Stockton; (48) Sunnyvale; (49) Torrance; (50) Ventura; (51) Victorville; (52) Visalia and Hanford; (53) Walnut Creek and Antioch.
CO:  (1) Boulder and Thornton; (2) Colorado Springs and Pueblo; (3) Denver Central; (4) Denver East; (5) Denver West; (6) North Colorado; (7) West Colorado.
CT:  (1) Bridgeport and Stamford; (2) Hartford; (3) New Haven; (4) New London and Middletown; (5) West Connecticut.
DE:  (1) Delaware.
DC:  (1) City of Washington.
FL:  (1) Altamonte Springs; (2) Coral Springs and Boca Raton; (3) Daytona and Sanford; (4) Fort Lauderdale; (5) Fort Myers; (6) Fort Pierce and Vero Beach; (7) Hialeah and North Miami; ( Hollywood and Plantation; (9) Jacksonville; (10) Kendall; (11) Lakeland and Kissimmee; (12) Melbourne and Titusville; (13) Miami; (14) Mid Dade; (15) North Florida; (16) Orlando; (17) Palm Beach; (18) Pensacola; (19) Saint Johns Valley; (20) Saint Petersburg; (21) Sarasota and Punta Gorda; (22) Spring Hill and Bayonet Point; (23) Tallahassee and Panama City; (24) Tampa; (25) Tampa Bay North.

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GA:  (1) Atlanta; (2) Atlanta De Kalb; (3) East Georgia; (4) Forest Park and Monroe; (5) Gwinnett; (6) Mid Georgia; (7) North East Georgia; ( North West Georgia; (9) Roswell and Marietta; (10) Smyrna and Carrollton; (11) South East Georgia; (12) South West Georgia; (13) West Georgia.
HI:  (1) East Hawaii; (2) West Hawaii.
ID:  (1) North Idaho; (2) South Idaho.
IL:  (1) Aurora and Crystal Lake; (2) Belleville and Alton; (3) Chicago Central; (4) Chicago North; (5) Chicago North West; (6) Chicago South; (7) Chicago South East; ( Chicago South West; (9) Chicago West; (10) East Illinois; (11) Illinois Valley and Kankakee; (12) Mid Illinois; (13) Naperville and Orland Park; (14) North Illinois; (15) North West Illinois; (16) Schaumburg; (17) South Illinois; (18) Waukegan; (19) Wheaton.
IN:  (1) East Indiana; (2) Gary; (3) Indianapolis North; (4) Indianapolis South; (5) North East Indiana; (6) South Bend and Elkhart; (7) South Indiana; ( South West Indiana; (9) West Indiana.
IA:  (1) Des Moines; (2) East Iowa; (3) North East Iowa; (4) South East Iowa; (5) West Iowa.
KS:  (1) East Kansas; (2) Overland Park; (3) West Kansas; (4) Wichita and Winfield.
KY:  (1) Bowling Green and Elizabethtown; (2) Covington and Frankfort; (3) East Kentucky; (4) Lexington and Richmond; (5) Louisville; (6) West Kentucky.
LA:  (1) Baton Rouge; (2) Monroe and Alexandria; (3) New Orleans East; (4) New Orleans West; (5) North West Louisiana; (6) South Louisiana; (7)    South West Louisiana.
ME:  (1) Bangor and Augusta; (2) South Maine.
MD:  (1) Baltimore; (2) Dundalk and Bel Air; (3) Ellicott City and Towson; (4) Germantown and Hagerstown; (5) Howard and Annapolis; (6) Prince George's; (7) Saint Charles and Salisbury; ( Silver Spring.
MA:  (1) Barnstable and Plymouth; (2) Boston; (3) Cambridge; (4) Framingham and Leominster; (5) Lowell and Lawrence; (6) Lynn and Haverhill; (7) New Bedford and Brockton; ( Pioneer Valley and Pittsfield; (9) Quincy and Brookline; (10) Worcester and Amherst.
MI:  (1) Ann Arbor and Monroe; (2) Detroit East; (3) Detroit South; (4) Detroit West; (5) Flint; (6) Grand Rapids; (7) Kalamazoo and Benton Harbor; ( Lansing; (9) Macomb; (10) Muskegon and Holland; (11) North Michigan; (12) Saginaw; (13) South Michigan; (14) Southfield and Pontiac; (15) Troy and Port Huron.
MN:  (1) Brooklyn Park and Coon Rapids; (2) Duluth and Elk River; (3) Eagan and Woodbury; (4) Minneapolis East and Saint Paul; (5) Minneapolis West; (6) North West Minnesota; (7) South East Minnesota; ( South West Minnesota.

[kcguy]

MS:  (1) Jackson and Vicksburg; (2) Mid Mississippi; (3) North Mississippi; (4) South East Mississippi.
MO:  (1) Cape Girardeau and Poplar Bluff; (2) Florissant and Kirkwood; (3) Kansas City North and Saint Joseph; (4) Kansas City South; (5) Mid Missouri; (6) North East Missouri; (7) Saint Charles and Wildwood; ( Saint Louis; (9) South West Missouri.
MT:  (1) Montana.
NE:  (1) East Nebraska; (2) Omaha; (3) West Nebraska.
NV:  (1) Henderson; (2) Las Vegas; (3) Reno and Carson City.
NH:  (1) Manchester and Portsmouth; (2) North and West New Hampshire.
NJ:  (1) Camden; (2) Edison; (3) Hackensack; (4) Jersey City; (5) Long Branch; (6) Mid Jersey; (7) Newark; ( Paterson; (9) Toms River and Mercer; (10) Trenton; (11) Union and Irvington; (12) Vineland and Atlantic City; (13) West Milford and Morristown.
NM:  (1) North East New Mexico; (2) North West New Mexico; (3) South New Mexico.
NY:  (1) Albany; (2) Binghamton and Cortland; (3) Brentwood; (4) Bronx North; (5) Bronx South; (6) Brooklyn East; (7) Brooklyn North; ( Brooklyn South; (9) Buffalo; (10) Coram; (11) Elmira and the Finger Lakes; (12) Hempstead; (13) Levittown; (14) Manhattan North; (15) Manhattan South; (16) Newburgh and Stony Point; (17) Poughkeepsie and Kingston; (18) Queens Central; (19) Queens East; (20) Queens West; (21) Rochester; (22) Saratoga and Champlain; (23) Southern Tier and Batavia; (24) Staten Island Ferry; (25) Syracuse; (26) Tonawanda and Niagara; (27) Utica and Saint Lawrence; (28) White Plains; (29) Yonkers.
NC:  (1) Charlotte East and Monroe; (2) Charlotte West; (3) Durham and Sanford; (4) Fayetteville and Lumberton; (5) Greensboro and Burlington; (6) Hickory and Statesville; (7) Kannapolis and Asheboro; ( North Carolina Coastal; (9) North Carolina Lowlands; (10) North Carolina Mountains; (11) Onslow; (12) Raleigh; (13) Winston Salem and Lexington.
ND:  (1) North Dakota.
OH:  (1) Akron; (2) Canton; (3) Cincinnati; (4) Cleveland East; (5) Cleveland West; (6) Columbus North; (7) Columbus South; ( Dayton East and Springfield; (9) Dayton West and Middletown; (10) East Ohio; (11) Hamilton; (12) Lorain; (13) Mentor and Ashtabula; (14) North Ohio; (15) South Ohio; (16) Toledo and Bowling Green; (17) West Ohio; (18) Youngstown.
OK:  (1) East Oklahoma; (2) Norman and Ardmore; (3) Oklahoma City; (4) Tulsa; (5) West Oklahoma.
OR:  (1) Beaverton; (2) East Oregon and Clackamas; (3) Portland; (4) South West Oregon; (5) West Oregon.

[kcguy]

PA:  (1) Allentown; (2) Bucks; (3) Greensburg; (4) Harrisburg and York; (5) Lancaster and Lebanon; (6) Mid Pennsylvania; (7) Norristown; ( North Pennsylvania; (9) North West Pennsylvania; (10) Philadelphia Central; (11) Philadelphia North; (12) Philadelphia West; (13) Pittsburgh North; (14) Pittsburgh South; (15) Pottstown and West Chester; (16) Schuylkill and Lehigh; (17) Scranton; (18) South Pennsylvania; (19) West Pennsylvania.
RI:  (1) Providence; (2) Warwick and Newport.
SC:  (1) Columbia and Sumter; (2) Florence and Myrtle Beach; (3) Greenville and Anderson; (4) Savannah and Saluda Valleys; (5) South Carolina Lowlands; (6) South Carolina Uplands.
SD:  (1) South Dakota.
TN:  (1) Chattanooga and Cleveland; (2) East Tennessee; (3) Kingsport and Morristown; (4) Knoxville; (5) Memphis; (6) Nashville North and Cumberland Valley; (7) Nashville South and Murfreesboro; ( South West Tennessee; (9) West Tennessee.
TX:  (1) Arlington North; (2) Arlington South; (3) Austin North; (4) Austin South and San Marcos; (5) Beaumont and Lufkin; (6) Brownsville and McAllen; (7) Bryan and Conroe; ( Corpus Christi and Victoria; (9) Dallas East; (10) Dallas North; (11) Dallas West; (12) Denton; (13) East Texas; (14) El Paso; (15) Fort Worth and Weatherford; (16) Galveston Bay; (17) Houston East; (18) Houston North; (19) Houston North West; (20) Houston South; (21) Houston West; (22) Laredo and Mission; (23) North East Texas; (24) North West Texas; (25) Plano; (26) San Antonio Central; (27) San Antonio East and New Braunfels; (28) San Antonio West and Nueces Valley; (29) South West Texas; (30) Sugar Land; (31) Waco and Temple; (32) West Texas.
UT:  (1) Provo and Saint George; (2) Salt Lake and Ogden; (3) West Valley City.
VT:  (1) Vermont.
VA:  (1) Fairfax; (2) Henrico and Fredericksburg; (3) Manassas; (4) Mid Virginia; (5) Newport News and Petersburg; (6) Norfolk and Hampton; (7) Potomac Valley; ( Richmond; (9) South Virginia; (10) Trans-Appalachian Virginia; (11) Virginia Beach.
WA:  (1) Bellevue; (2) Everett; (3) Federal Way; (4) Seattle; (5) Spokane and Walla Walla; (6) Tacoma and Olympia; (7) Vancouver and Longview; ( Washington Inlets; (9) Yakima and Kennewick.
WV:  (1) Kanawha Valley and Parkersburg; (2) West Virginia Panhandles; (3) West Virginia South.
WI:  (1) East Wisconsin; (2) Madison; (3) Mid Wisconsin; (4) Milwaukee North; (5) Milwaukee South and Kenosha; (6) North East Wisconsin; (7) North West Wisconsin; ( Waukesha and Janesville.
WY:  (1) Wyoming.

[kcguy]

Do you have the program? I'd love to have a spin at it.

It's an Access file, with a Visual Basic program.  I'm not sure that it's very user-friendly.  I'll message you my e-mail address, and you can let me know how to transmit it.  It's probably too big for an e-mail attachment.

[kcguy]

MI:  (1) Ann Arbor and Monroe; (2) Detroit East; (3) Detroit South; (4) Detroit West; (5) Flint; (6) Grand Rapids; (7) Kalamazoo and Benton Harbor; ( Lansing; (9) Macomb; (10) Muskegon and Holland; (11) North Michigan; (12) Saginaw; (13) South Michigan; (14) Southfield and Pontiac; (15) Troy and Port Huron.

Are the names sorted in alphabetical order? I hope so because the Michigan law says that district 1 shall be in the northwest corner of the state and the highest numbered one in the southeast corner.

Yes, I just did everything in alphabetical order, because it saved me having to decide on a particular order.