districts that grew the most in the 1980s

[freepcrusher]

California 37 Al McCandless (R)
1980 population: roughly 526,000
1990 population: 979,966
% Growth 86.3%

California 35 Jerry Lewis (R)
1980 Population: roughly 526,000
1990 population: 894,538
% Growth 70.1%

Texas 26 Dick Armey (R)
1980 population: roughly 527,000
1990 population: 894,930
% Growth: 69.9%

Florida 11 Jim Bacchus (D)
% Growth 62.7%

Florida 14 Harry Johnston (D)
% Growth 62.7%

California 43 Ron Packard (R)
1980 population: roughly 526,000
1990 population: 841,297
% Growth 60.1%

Florida 13 Porter Goss (R)
% Growth 57.2%

Arizona 1 John Rhodes Jr (R)
1980 Population: roughly 543,000
1990 population: 828,857
% Growth: 52.4%

Nevada 2 Barbara Vucanovich (R)
% Growth: 52.2%

Florida 3 Charles Bennett (D)
% Growth 50.3%

[phk]

It'd be helpful to describe the region.

[freepcrusher]

Al McCandless' district took in almost all of Riverside county with the exception of the city of Riverside

Jerry Lewis' district was all of San Bernardino county except for the city of San Bernardino and other mexican areas

Dick Armey's district took in Southlake, Arlington, Bedford, Richland Hills, Euless, Keller in Tarrant County, all of Denton County, McKinney/Frisco area in Collin county, and SE Cooke county

Not sure about the Florida districts

Ron Packard's districts took in Carlsbad in SD County and everything north. It also took in Mission Viejo, Santa Margarita, San Clemente, SJC in Orange County.

Arizona 1 took in Mesa, Gilbert, Chandler, Tempe and some areas of Phoenix near the airport

Nevada 2 I'm guessing included some of the exurban areas of Las Vegas county as well as the rest of the state