DWTL Region Shrinking Plan

[bgwah]

The U.S. can easily be divided into four regions. I was always perplexed that the "founding" fathers when with five.

[bgwah]

In the past, for redistricting, we used the number of voters in the last Presidential election for population purposes. I think it might be preferable to the number of registered voters.

[bgwah]

In the past, for redistricting, we used the number of voters in the last Presidential election for population purposes. I think it might be preferable to the number of registered voters.

I was just thinking the same thing.  The West contained about 10 SDP voters that have never participated in Atlasia.

I'm not quite sure it's that many. Furthermore, I present the following:

https://uselectionatlas.org/AFEWIKI/index.php/February_2009_Presidential_Election

In particular, look at the regional breakdown. This should give us a general idea of where people are located at the moment. There are a couple things worth pointing out: Speed of Sound did not make a valid Presidential vote, but his vote should count for these purposes, and you can add one or the Midwest for that. Meeker moved to the Pacific, so you can add one there and subtract one from the Mideast. I think I'll do a more precise count by state later (unless Afleitch wants to, which would be nice ), but I think this should help move this discussion along for now.
 
Preliminary regional populations based off Feb 09 Election:

Mideast: 11 (17.5%)
Midwest: 14 (22.2%)
Northeast: 12 (19.0%)
Pacific: 17 (27.0%)
Southeast: 9 (14.3%)

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Additionally... What present regions would survive if we reduced the number to three of four? Which one or two regions will die?

If we go down this path, I propose a grand civil war to resolve the matter. Five regions enter the ring. Only three will come out. Who will win the epic struggle for survival?


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Afleitch concern's are valid---these regions may very well be much more long-term than districts. Perhaps we can resort to a mix of the two strategies.

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As for Lief's map, I again am hesitant to support the "three region" strategy and this is an example why. The U.S.  nicely divides into four regions (West, South<east>, North<east>, and Midwest), but three? Eh. Same problem we have with five regions--the Mideast region is kind of random and doesn't really follow anything. I also dislike the current system of insisting each region be ten states. State sizes (land area and population) differ so greatly that it seems silly to make sure they're divided this way.