If US districts were given names instead of being assigned by numbers?

[iceman]

Just like the UK constituencies, how would it pan out? Care to cite example of District names?

[iceman]

VA-01 Tidewater
VA-02 Virginia Beach
VA-03 Newport News and Portsmouth
VA-04 Chesapeake and Richmond
VA-05 Charlottesville and Albemarle
VA-06 Shenandoah
VA-07 Henrico and Chesterfield
VA-08 Arlington and Alexandria
VA-09 Roanoke
VA-10 Loudoun and Manassas
VA-11 Fairfax

[iceman]

Anyways, here goes my attempt on a couple states with "clean" districts, generally just calling them after the biggest town in the district:

Indiana
IN-01: Gary
IN-02: South Bend
IN-03: Fort Wayne
IN-04: Lafayette
IN-05: Hamilton
IN-06: Southeast Indiana?
IN-07: Indianapolis
IN-08: Evansville
IN-09: Bloomington

IN-01: Gary and Hammond
IN-02: South Bend and Elkhart
IN-03: Fort Wayne
IN-04: Tippecanoe
IN-05: Fishers and Carmel
IN-06: Muncie and Southeast Indiana
IN-07: Indianapolis
IN-08: Terre Haute and Evansville
IN-09: Bloomington


anyway, most of UK consitituencies usually have 2 places in their names.

[iceman]

WI-01 Kenosha and Racine
WI-02 Madison
WI-03 LaCrosse and Eau Claire
WI-04 Milwaukee
WI-05 Waukesha
WI-06 Fond du Lac and OshKosh
WI-07 Superior and Wausau
WI-08 Appleton and Green Bay

[iceman]

WA-01 Bellingham
WA-02 Everett and Puget Sound
WA-03 Vancouver
WA-04 Yakima
WA-05 Spokane
WA-06 Olympic Peninsula
WA-07 Seattle
WA-08 Auburn and Sammamish
WA-09 Puyallup and Tacoma
WA-10 Olympia

[iceman]

i dare any brave soul to attempt this with Ohio.

OH-01 Cincinnati West
OH-02 Cincinnati East
OH-03 Columbus
OH-04 Lima and Elyria
OH-05 Bowling Green and NE Ohio
OH-06 Southeast Ohio
OH-07 Canton
OH-08 Hamilton and Troy
OH-09 Toledo and Lake Erie
OH-10 Dayton
OH-11 Cleveland and Akron
OH-12 Columbus North and Delaware
OH-13 Youngstown and Warren
OH-14 Ashtabula and Mentor
OH-15 Columbus South and Fairfield
OH-16 East Cuyahoga

[iceman]

CO-01 Denver
CO-02 Boulder and Fort Collins
CO-03 Aspen and Grand Junction
CO-04 Greeley and Pueblo
CO-05 Colorado Springs
CO-06 Aurora
CO-07 Arvada and Lakewood

[iceman]

SC-01 Charleston and Beaufort
SC-02 Lexington
SC-03 Anderson
SC-04 Greenville and Spartanburg
SC-05 Rock Hill
SC-06 Columbia and North Charleston
SC-07 Pee Dee

[iceman]

MN-01 Blue Earth and Southern Minnesota
MN-02 Shakopee and Eagan
MN-03 Hennnepin West
MN-04 St . Paul
MN-05 Minneapolis
MN-06 Anoka and St. Cloud
MN-07 Western Minnesota
MN-08 Duluth and Iron Range

[iceman]

GA-01 Savannah
GA-02 Southeast Georgia
GA-03 ?? (stuck with this)
GA-04 Conyers and East DeKalb
GA-05 Central Atlanta
GA-06 Alpharetta and Roswell
GA-07 Lawrenceville
GA-08 Valdosta and Warner Robins
GA-09 Gainesville and NE
GA-10 Athens-Clarke
GA-11 Marietta
GA-12 East Central Georgia
GA-13 South Atlanta and Clayton
GA-14 Northwest Georgia


I could have named GA-02 as Albany and Macon but the NY-20 district would be appropriately named that. Also for GA-12 with Richmond but VA-04 would be named the same.

[iceman]

MS-01 Northern Mississippi
MS-02 Jackson and West
MS-03 South Central Mississippi
MS-04 Biloxi and Gulfport

not very creative

LA-01 Metairie and River Delta
LA-02 New Orleans
LA-03 Acadiana
LA-04 Shreveport
LA-05 NE and Florida Parishes
LA-06 Baton Rouge

[iceman]

The MA congressional districts are a bit of a mess, so I tried to form names around major cities and cultural centers.

MA-01: Springfield
MA-02: Worcester
MA-03: Lowell
MA-04: Tauton-Newton
MA-05: Framingham-Cambridge
MA-06: Essex
MA-07: Boston-Somerville
MA-08: Boston-Brockton
MA-09: Plymouth-Cape Cod

could be something like this:

MA-01 Berkshires (the the name springfield could be used for IL-13)
MA-02 Worcester
MA-03 Lowell and Lawrence
MA-04 Newton and Fall River
MA-05 Cambridge and Framingham
MA-06 Lynn, Salem and Peabody
MA-07 Boston and Chelsea
MA-08 South Boston and Quincy
MA-09 Cape Cod

[iceman]

NY-01 Eastern Suffolk
NY-02 Massapequa and Mid-suffolk
NY-03 Northern Nassau
NY-04 Mineola and South Nassau
NY-05 Jamaica
NY-06 Flushing
NY-07 Brooklyn Heights and Lower East Side
NY-08 East Flatbush and Coney Island
NY-09 Flatbush and Prospect Heights
NY-10 Tribeca and West Manhattan
NY-11 Staten Island
NY-12 Flatiron and Manhattan East
NY-13 Harlem
NY-14 Astoria and East Bronx
NY-15 South Bronx
NY-16 Yonkers and New Rochelle
NY-17 Rockland
NY-18 Poughkeepsie and Hudson Valley
NY-19 Catskill
NY-20 Albany and Schenectady
NY-21 Adirondacks
NY-22 Utica and Central NY
NY-23 Ithaca and SW
NY-24 Syracuse
NY-25 Rochester and Irondequoit
NY-26 Buffalo and Niagara Falls
NY-27 Western New York

[iceman]

OREGON

OR-01 Beaverton and Hillsboro
OR-02 Central and Eastern Oregon
OR-03 Portland
OR-04 Eugene and Corvallis
OR-05 Willamette Valley