Congressional District Names (The Madness Returns)

[Jake]

I didn't think Mongomery West-Berks East-Chester North sounded very good. Suburbs are the hardest to name though.

PA-13 should be Montgomery and Philadelphia North BTW

[PADem]

CA-37 Carson-Compton-Long Beach

50 Cent for CA-37 Representative!

I would say Dr. Dre, afterall 50 Cent is from Queens, NY (now lives in farmington, CT)

Ok maybe The Game then, or Snoop Dogg - I believe he's from Long Beach

[Q]

With the Georgia map used in 2002 and 2004, reasonable names would have been nearly impossible since the map broke up nearly every population center and geographic region in the state.

Here's the 2006+ map, which should be much easier.  I cobbled this map together from various sources, so I'm sorry for the poor quality.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

With the Georgia map used in 2002 and 2004, reasonable names would have been nearly impossible since the map broke up nearly every population center and geographic region in the state.

Here's the 2006+ map, which should be much easier.  I cobbled this map together from various sources, so I'm sorry for the poor quality.

Thanks
I'd not been able to find a map of the districts anywhere.

I'm thinking of doing names for both Georgia maps; although there's a 50% chance I'll stop attempting to give names to the existing map before I go completely insane... the new map should name very easily though

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NY-1 Brookhaven - Montauk
NY-2 Huntington
NY-3 Hicksville-Islip
NY-4 Nassau South
NY-5 Gold coast
NY-6 JFK airport
NY-7 Whitestone
NY-8 Lower Manhatan
NY-9 Jamica
NY-10 Brooklyn Norcth
NY-11 Brooklyn Central
NY-12 Downtown Brooklyn
NY-13 Staten Island
NY-14 East River
NY-15 Harlem
NY-16 Bronx West
NY-17 Rockland-Hudson
NY-18 Westchester
NY-19 NYC exurbs
NY-20 Hudson valley
NY-21 Albany
NY-22 Quickway
NY-23 Northern New York
NY-24 Central New York
NY-25 Syracuse
NY-26 Buffalo/Rochester suburbs
NY-27 Chautagua-Buffalo south
NY-28 Downtown Buffalo/Rochester
NY-29 Southern Tier

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Northern and Central CA:

CA-1 Humbolt-Napa
CA-2 Northern I-5
CA-3 Sacramento suburbs
CA-4 Sierra Nevadas
CA-5 Sacramento
CA-6 Marin-Santa Rosa
CA-7 Vallejo straights
CA-8 San Francisco
CA-9 Oakland-Berkeley
CA-10 Walnut Creek-Livermore
CA-11 SF bay Area exurbs
CA-12 South San Francisco
CA-13 Fremont
CA-14 Palo Alto- San Mateo coast
CA-15 Silicon Valley
CA-16 San Jose
CA-17 Monterey
CA-18 Merced-Modesto
CA-19 Madera- Riverbank
CA-20 Central Valley
CA-21 Tulare
CA-22 Kern-San Luis Obispo
CA-23 Santa Barbara Coast
CA-24 Santa Barbara Interior
CA-25 Death Valley

[Q]

NY-6 JFK airport

NY-19 NYC exurbs

NY-26 Buffalo/Rochester suburbs

CA-2 Northern I-5
CA-3 Sacramento suburbs

CA-11 SF bay Area exurbs

I don't think the residents of these areas would be thrilled with these names.  Suburbs might be ok, but "exurbs" is a rather charged word.

[Q]

Thanks
I'd not been able to find a map of the districts anywhere.

I'm thinking of doing names for both Georgia maps; although there's a 50% chance I'll stop attempting to give names to the existing map before I go completely insane... the new map should name very easily though

My pleasure, Al.  It was quite hard to find, and then the districts were not numbered on whatever obscure place I found the map.  So I had to look at various newspaper articles and do some educated guesswork to determine the numbers for the districts, which I added myself.  The only major change in numbering is that district 3 was renamed 8, as it was prior to the previous redistricting.

I know that the map I posted is mostly accurate to the final version passed by the state Legislature, but it's possible that there were a few subtle changes made since this map was made.  Nothing that should prevent the naming of districts, though.

According to my count, 18 of 159 counties are still split on this map, as opposed to probably at least 40 on the old one (too many to count on most maps, actually).  Still, some of the new splits seem somewhat unnecessary, especially in the rural districts that have more than one split county.  In order to balance population, most rural districts really need only one split county.

On the old map, several counties were split between 3 CD's, and at least a few between 4.  Now there are only 3 or 4 counties in GA that could have their own CD (i.e. population above 650,000 or so people), so you see how ridiculous those lines really were.  But the new map still has 2 counties split among 3 districts, and 1 split among 4.

[socaldem]

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"

[Filuwaúrdjan]

New York

NY-1: Suffolk East
NY-2: Suffolk West
NY-3: Nassau East (or '' '' & Islip/Suffolk Southwest. Or as previous but Levittown instead of Nassau East)
NY-4: Nassau Southwest (or Hempstead)
NY-5: Queens Northeast & Nassau Northwest
NY-6: Queens Southeast
NY-7: Queens Northwest & Bronx East
NY-8: Manhattan West Side & Brooklyn, Coney Island (or Borough Park instead of Coney Island)
NY-9: Brooklyn Sheepshead Bay & Queens Central (or something like Brooklyn & Queens, Jamiaca Bay...)
NY-10: Brooklyn Central
NY-11: Brooklyn, Flatbush (or '' '' & Crown Heights)
NY-12: Brooklyn, Williamsburg & Red Hook & Manhattan Lower East Side
NY-13: Staten Island & Brooklyn Bay Ridge
NY-14: Manhattan East Side & Queens West
NY-15: Manhattan Harlem
NY-16: Bronx South
NY-17: Bronx North, Rockland & Yonkers West
NY-18: Yonkers East & (?) [maybe Westchester & ?]
NY-19: Lower Hudson Valley
NY-20: Upper Hudson Valley
NY-21: Albany (or '' '' & Schenectady)
NY-22: Catskills & Binghamton
NY-23: St Lawrence
NY-24: Utica
NY-25: Syracuse (or '' '' & Rochester North)
NY-26: Buffalo Northeast & Rochester West
NY-27: Buffalo South & Jamestown
NY-28: Rochester Central & Buffalo North
NY-29: Southern Tier & Rochester South

Notes

1. Some of these names are very ugly. So are the districts.
2. It might be an idea to drop some of the borough prefixes in several NYC districts; but I'm not entirely sure. I kept them all for consistencies sake.
3. Ideas for NY-9 and NY-18 are welcome

[RBH]

Missouri

1 - St. Louis
2 - Northwest St. Louis
3 - Southwest St. Louis
4 - West Central Missouri
5 - Kansas City Metro
6 - Northwest Missouri
7 - Southwest Missouri
8 - Southeast Missouri
9 - Northeast Missouri