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Skill and Chance
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« on: December 01, 2018, 09:21:55 PM »

The most surprising thing is probably inland CA staying R.  The Plains states have basically always been R-leaning, and the remnants of the industrial/rural Northern Republican machines explain everything else.
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« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2018, 12:58:20 PM »

Would be awesome to know what the population of those districts drawn in the 1930s are today.  Some could be less than 200,000 while others over 5 million.

I'm guessing the smallest are some of the rural central Iowa seats, the southern West Virginia seat, the eastern Kentucky seat and the the western Nebraska and Kansas seats, with possibly a rural middle Pennsylvania seat thrown in the mix and maybe the Delta seat in Mississippi as well. A couple of the lower Manhattan seats might make it into the list, too. The largest is probably the Orange-San Bernardino-Riverside seat although the Arizona seat and the SE Florida seat are far up there, too.

I'm a little surprised by how many seats Texas had back in the 30s.

My understanding is that CDs varying in population by more than a factor of 2 was rare even in that era.  The insane 50X differences were usually in state senates.  1 county = 1 state senate seat style rules were fairly common.
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