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Sol
Junior Chimp
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« on: May 18, 2020, 03:39:52 PM »

This only works well for states with decent districts.

PA-01: Bucks
PA-02: Philadelphia East
PA-03: Philadelphia West
PA-04: Montgomery
PA-05: Philadelphia South and Delaware
PA-06: Chester and Reading
PA-07: Lehigh Valley
PA-08: Wyoming Valley and the Poconos
PA-09: Susquehanna and Lebanon?
PA-10: Harrisburg-York
PA-11: Lancaster-York
PA-12: Northern Tier
PA-13: Allegheny Mountains?
PA-14: Mon Valley
PA-15: Don't have any clue for this district, sorry
PA-16: Erie-Butler
PA-17: Beaver-North Alleghany?
PA-18: Pittsburgh
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Sol
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2020, 04:03:05 PM »

North Carolina:

NC-01: Rocky Mount and Greenville
NC-02: Raleigh
NC-03: Outer Banks
NC-04: Durham and Chapel Hill
NC-05: High Country and Gaston (and Foothills could work too, but it doesn't include Catawba the largest foothill county so idgaf)
NC-06: Greensboro and Winston-Salem
NC-07: Cape Fear and Johnston
(Wilmington and Johnston or Southeast and Johnston could work too, but this, the 8th, 9th, and 10th districts are such abominations, it's hard to come up with 'good' names so I'll just go with names that cover the geographic extent of the districts)
NC-08: Concord and Fayetteville
NC-09: South Mecklenburg, Union, and Sandhills
NC-10: Lake Norman and Outer Forsyth
NC-11: Smoky Mountains
NC-12: Charlotte
NC-13: Salisbury, Lexington, and Burlington

These are great district names for what surely must be difficult map, but I will nitpick and say:
-Outer Banks isn't a great name for NC-03; the actual Outer Banks are pretty sparsely populated. The real population centers are in cities on the mainland, like Jacksonville, Kinston, New Bern, etc. Maybe Eastern North Carolina or Albemarle-Jacksonville? Don't know this area super well.
-You could probably just call NC-09 South Charlotte and Sandhills.
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