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jimrtex
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« on: August 08, 2017, 04:02:47 PM »
« edited: August 08, 2017, 04:05:26 PM by jimrtex »

Texas was hard, so I decided to use names like for Australian divisions:

Congressmen with 15 or more terms:

Archer (15)
Brooks (21)
Burleson (16)
de la Garza (16)
Fisher (16)
Garner (15)
Gonzalez (19)
Hall (17)
Mahon (22)
Mansfield (16)
Patman (24)
Pickle (16)
Poage (21)
Rayburn (15)
Sumners (17)
Teague (17)
Thomas (15)
Wright (18)

Congress with 10 or more terms, selected by me. May have modern bias:

DeLay (11)
Edwards (10)
Frost (13)
Ortiz (14)
Paul (12)
Stenholm (13)
Wilson (12)
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Feel free to suggest promotions or demotions.

Beckworth (12)
Blanton (13)
Combest (10)
Culberson, D (11)
Dies (10)
Dowdy (11)
Hinojosa (10)
Johnson, L (12)
Jones (12)
Henry (10)
Kilday (12)
Lanham (14)
Mills (13)
Roberts (10)
Slayden (11)
Stephens (10)
Thompson (11)

Chosen for other reasons, including service in other offices.

Alger (5) (first Republican modern era)
Crockett (elected in Tennessee)
Houston (elected in Tennessee)
Bentsen, L (4) (later senator)
Bonilla (7) (Hispanic Republican)
Bush, GHW (2) (later president)
Gramm (3) (later senator)
Johnson, LB (6) (later president)
Jordan (3) (first Black modern era)
Leland (6) (first Black male, died in plane crash in office)
Reagan (8) (Postmaster General CSA, first RRC)
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Other possibilities:

Armey(9)
Bryant (7)
Casey (9)
Coleman (7)
Collins (8)
Connally (6 + senator)
Eckhardt (7)
Fields (8)
Kleberg (7)
Kazen (9)
Reyes (8)
Thornberry (8)
Wurzbach (6)

Excluded due to still in office:

Barton (17)
Smith (16)
Johnson, S (14)
Green, G (13)
Johnson, EB (13)
Doggett (12)
Jackson Lee (12)
Thornberry (12)
Brady (11)
Granger (11)
Sessions (11)
Culberson (9)
Burgess (8)
Carter (8)
Hensarling (8)
Conaway (7)
Cuellar (7)
Gohmert (7)
Green, A (7)
Marchant (7)
McCaul (7)
Poe (7)
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jimrtex
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« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2017, 10:18:41 PM »

Texas
1 - Piney Woods - Sabine

Deep East

2 - Houston North

Though no longer accurate

3 - Blackland Prairie - Lavon

Collin (Blackland Prairie is a much larger area, and why did you pick Lavon?)

4 - Red-Sulphur

Red River

5 - Trinity

Traditionally 6 was the TrinityRiver district. Dallas East might be more accurate.

6 - Arlington-Waxahachie-Corsicana
7 - Houston West
8 - Sam Houston

The forest or the man?

9 - Houston South

Houston Southwest

10 - Brazos - Colorado

I would make 17 Brazos. A district that crosses the Brazos and Colorado isn't really characterized by the rivers it crosses.

Houston Northwest-Austin North
or
US 290

11 - Edwards Plateau

Permian Basin-Concho Valley

12 - Fossil Rim - Fort Worth West

Fort Worth

13 - Panhandle
14 - Galveston-Bolivar

Upper Gulf Coast

15 - McAllen-Seguin

Fajita Uno

16 - El Paso
17 - Brazos - Waco

Brazos

18 - Houston Center

Houston Central

19 - Llano Estacado

Llano Estacado-Big Country

20 - San Antonio West

San Antonio Central

21 - Hill Country
22 - Fort Bend
23 - Pecos

San Antonio-Terlingua-El Paso

24 - Dallas North - Fort Worth East

DFW

25 - Balcones

Huh

26 - Denton
27 - Matagorda

Coastal Bend

28 - Laredo

Fajita Dos

29 - Houston East
30 - Dallas South
31 - Temple-Georgetown

Georgetown-Killeen-Temple

32 - Dallas Northeast

Dallas North

33 - Dallas-Fort Worth Center

Maybe districts that are not compact should not be entitled to names.

34 - Laguna Madre

Fajita Tres

35 - Alamo

I-35

36 - Big Thicket
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