The 100 States of America

[Gass3268]

Not sure if you had ideas yet for the two Wisconsin states, but I'd keep the western one called Wisconsin with Madison remaining as the capital. Winnebago would be a good name for the eastern one and Fond du Lac would be a good central location between the two centers of population in the new state.

[Gass3268]

To match Del Tachi, but in the Midwest:

IL-Cook County: Chicago or Dearborn; Chicago is obvious, but maybe a suburb like Oak Park or Evanston?
IL-Chicago Suburbs: Lincoln or Chicagoland; Aurora or Naperville
IL-Northwest: Illinois (The river flows right through here); Peoria or Springfield
IL-South: Shawnee (National Forest and Indigenous Tribe) or Little Egypt; Not a great central location here, maybe Effingham (have not heard positive things about the place) or Decatur?
IN-North: Wabash (Not a huge fan of naming a state famous for an Indian battle); South Bend
IN-South: Hoosier (Never been a fan of the Indiana name); keep Indianapolis
MI-North: Superior or Huron; Traverse City or Midland
MI-West: Michigan or Ford; Grand Rapids or Lansing
MI-East: Motown; Ann Arbor, Livonia or Detroit itself (Detroit could use the boost)
MN-Twin Cities: Twin Cities; St. Paul
MN-Remainder: Minnesota; St. Cloud or Mankato
MO-North: Missouri; Columbia
MO-South: Ozark; Jefferson City or Springfield
OH-Southeast: Ohio; Athens
OH-Northeast: Western Reserve or Erie or Cuyahoga; Cleveland (Cleveland could use the boost)
OH-Southwest: Miami or Grant; Dayton
OH- Northwest: Maumee or Scioto (Not great choices here); Columbus
WI-East: Menominee or Michigan; Fond du Lac or Sheboygan
WI-West: Wisconsin; Madison or LaCrosse

[Gass3268]

Do you have the 2023 Gov results for Kentucky and Jackson?

[Gass3268]

Congressional Representation: ER's Senators were last elected in 2020 and 2022. The only Republican to win a Senate race in recent memory was Rob Portman in 2016, but he was an incumbent, and it's doubtful that he would have had an easy race against a well-organized state Democratic party. Given Tim Ryan won by 12 points, I'm going to assume the state still has two Dem Senators. As for the House, I'd expect at least a light Dem gerrymander. In the current state of things, they'd have to concede at least 2 seats (possibly 3 - Timmy might try to find out) to the GOP, but that's a fair price to pay to safeguard the other 5-6 (or 4-5 post-resdistricting).

Playing around here and I think the 5-2 vs 4-3 split comes down to whether or not there needs to be two Black VRA districts. If it is determined that you only need 1, I think 5-2 is easy. If you need two, it gets harder.