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« on: September 22, 2015, 10:26:01 PM »

various countries give their electoral districts special names.They may be named after geographical features such as streets, cities ect, or after former representatives or famous politicians that resided in that district.What  would you rename some of the federal or state Congressional districts too.
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« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2015, 10:32:43 PM »

TN-1: Appalachia
TN-2: Knoxville
TN-3: Chattanooga
TN-4: Cumberland
TN-5: Nashville
TN-6: Huh?
TN-7: Rich Conservative Suburbanites (half joking)- Williamson could be an option after the County of influence- or just name it Blackburn
TN-8: Mississippi River
TN-9: Memphis
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« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2015, 10:46:07 PM »

WI-1: Geneva
WI-2: Dane
WI-3: Mississippi Upland
WI-4: Milwaukee
WI-5: Sensenbrenner
WI-6: Winnebago
WI-7: Northwood
WI-8: Green Bay
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« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2015, 10:54:31 PM »

Minnesota

MN 1- Mayo
MN 2- Twin Cities South
MN 3- Minnetonka
MN 4- St. Paul
MN 5- Minneapolis
MN 6- Twin Cities North
MN 7- Red River
MN 8- Northwoods

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« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2015, 11:13:55 PM »

UT-01: Utah North
UT-02: Utah South Plus Salt Lake
UT-03: Utah Southeast
UT-04: Wasatch Front (really only southern Salt Lake County and northern Utah County)

Utah kind of sucks for that kind of district naming.

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« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2015, 06:59:12 AM »

Iowa's kind of similar to Utah:

District 1 - Northeast Iowa
District 2 - Southeast Iowa
District 3 - Central/Southwest Iowa (includes Des Moines)
District 4 - North Central/Northwest Iowa
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« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2015, 09:35:51 AM »

MI-1 - UP and North Michigan
MI-2 - Lake Michigan Coast
MI-3 - Metro Grand Rapids
MI-4 - Central Michigan
MI-5 - Flint, Saginaw, Bay City
MI-6 - SW Michigan
MI-7 - South Central
MI-8 - Metro Lansing, Livingston, North Oakland
MI-9 - South Macomb and SE Oakland
MI-10 - North Macomb and Thumb
MI-11 - West/Central Oakland
MI-12 - Ann-Arbor and Downriver
MI-13 - Detroit-Wayne
MI-14 - Detroit-Oakland
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« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2015, 11:24:33 AM »

Iowa's kind of similar to Utah:

District 1 - Northeast Iowa
District 2 - Southeast Iowa
District 3 - Central/Southwest Iowa (includes Des Moines)
District 4 - North Central/Northwest Iowa

Honestly, if the Utah GOP just let the Dems have Salt Lake County as a district, it would make it a lot easier.
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« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2015, 11:44:17 AM »

New Jersey:

NJ01 - Camden
NJ02 - Atlantic-Cape May
NJ03 - Burlington-Ocean
NJ04 - Monmouth South
NJ05 - Bergen-Sussex-Warren
NJ06 - Monmouth Coast-Middlesex North
NJ07 - Hunterdon-Somerset-West Union
NJ08 - Bergen Hill-Elizabeth-Ironbound
NJ09 - Bergen-Passaic
NJ10 - Linden-Jersey City-Newark-The Oranges
NJ11 - Morris-Passaic-West Essex
NJ12 - Mercer-Middlesex South

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« Reply #9 on: September 23, 2015, 12:25:37 PM »

Ah, this old chestnut. Well its fun in a rather nerdish way (but then you are a member of a political cartography forum for God's sake are you not?) and can be a good way to learn more about places, but doing it for America is ultimately pretty frustrating due to the fact that the average Congressional District looks as though it was drawn by Arshile Gorky on a particularly angsty day.
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« Reply #10 on: September 23, 2015, 01:10:04 PM »
« Edited: September 24, 2015, 12:28:14 PM by Nyvin »

NH-1:  The Boston Exurbs
NH-2:  Eastern Vermont and Nashua/Salem

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« Reply #11 on: September 23, 2015, 01:59:30 PM »

Indiana 1: The Region (AKA cut this off and give it to Illinois)
Indiana 2: North Central Indiana (Aka Irish Fandom)
Indiana 3: Northwest Indiana (AKA Northern Accent Southern Voting)
Indiana 4: Western Indy Suburbs to The Kankakee Valley (aka boiler fans, windmills, and pig farms)
Indiana 5: Carmelladium (AKA rich people with roundabouts outvoting poor rustbelters)
Indiana 6: Southeastern Indiana (AKA Cinci Exurbs, germans, and Corn)
Indiana 7: Downtown And Southside Indy (AKA Naptown)
Indiana 8: Lower Wabash Valley (AKA The formerly bloody eighth)
Indiana 9: The Knobs ( AKA Hoosier fans and hills)

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« Reply #12 on: September 23, 2015, 02:44:37 PM »

UT-01: Utah North
UT-02: Utah South Plus Salt Lake
UT-03: Utah Southeast
UT-04: Wasatch Front (really only southern Salt Lake County and northern Utah County)

Utah kind of sucks for that kind of district naming.

Map.

Why not name it after the sort of "anchor cities"?

So:

UT-01: Ogden
UT-02: Salt Lake
UT-03: Provo
UT-04 is a bit trickier since it mainly mashes up suburbia, but a possible name would be Jordan
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« Reply #13 on: September 23, 2015, 03:11:49 PM »

FL-1: Eastern Alabama
FL-2: Tallyland
FL-3: Probably hell
FL-4: Jaxburbia
FL-5: Corrine Brown
FL-6: Rich whites
FL-7: Seminole?
FL-8: Decaying remains of NASA
FL-9: Osceola
FL-10: Orlando burbs
FL-11: Rich olds
FL-12: Huh who care
FL-13: St. Pete
FL-14: Tampa
FL-15: Tampaburbia
FL-16: Richer olds
FL-17: Swamps
FL-18: North Palm
FL-19: Richest olds
FL-20: More swamp
FL-21: Ft. Lauderdale?
FL-22: Also Ft. Lauderdale
FL-23: Hollywood (south Ft. Lauderdale)
FL-24: Miami
FL-25: Hialeah+swamps
FL-26: The Keys
FL-27: IRL

Boo. These are not entirely accurate. FL-22 should be "That part of Israel where the rockets don't hit but people are even more scared of the Palestinians than the rest of Israel. You know. That part. Yeah."

FL-18 probably would be deemed Alcee Hastings Golden Sink Faucet Emporium.

FL-19 isn't entirely inaccurate, but I'd also add "land of fake Southerners."

FL-24 should be "Frederica Wilson's hat closet."

FL-27 would be Cuba, pronounced "Cooooobah"

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« Reply #14 on: September 23, 2015, 03:56:16 PM »

^Yeah, I'll defer to Sanchez on the naming of those parts. South FL is not my speciality, and trying to pick out the cultural differences of those congressional districts (that all seem to run together, dividing up towns (Davie to Weston to Lauderdale) that all seem to run together) is beyond my pay grade. Though I'd note that it's the 20th's that's the Emporium, not the 18th.
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« Reply #15 on: September 23, 2015, 04:15:33 PM »

MS-01:  Mississippi Northeast - Appalachian Foothills
MS-02:  Mississippi West - Delta
MS-04:  Mississippi South - Gulf Coast and Pine Belt

It bothers me that the district in which I live, MS-03, is pretty much just what is "left over" when the other 3 districts in MS (each with a strong regional identity) are drawn.  It doesn't deserve a name as such.   
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« Reply #16 on: September 24, 2015, 12:34:29 AM »

UT-01: Utah North
UT-02: Utah South Plus Salt Lake
UT-03: Utah Southeast
UT-04: Wasatch Front (really only southern Salt Lake County and northern Utah County)

Utah kind of sucks for that kind of district naming.

Map.

Why not name it after the sort of "anchor cities"?

So:

UT-01: Ogden
UT-02: Salt Lake
UT-03: Provo
UT-04 is a bit trickier since it mainly mashes up suburbia, but a possible name would be Jordan

All of those sound pretty good, though UT-02's is a little misleading since the current representative didn't get into office on the strength of Salt Lake's votes, despite it being the "anchor city". He basically ran up the rural vote and ignored Salt Lake.
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« Reply #17 on: September 24, 2015, 12:50:22 AM »

It would be cool if we did this, but then again, gerrymandering would present problems.

Anyway, the only ones I can think of are:

NC-07: "Nobody Likes Pender"

NC-03: "The S#tty Part of New Hanover County"
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« Reply #18 on: September 24, 2015, 01:08:29 AM »

Massachusetts is tricky. Here are my attempts.

MA-01: Berkshire-Hampden
MA-02: Worcester-Amherst
MA-03: West Merrimack Valley
MA-04: Newton-Bristol
MA-05: Boston North
MA-06: Cape Ann
MA-07: Boston Center
MA-08: Boston South
MA-09: Plymouth

Of course, I could also name them based on a combination of Canada's riding naming system, and Massachusetts's weird naming system for state legislative districts, but that would be pretty silly:

MA-01: Berkshire-Franklin-Hampshire-Hampden-Worcester
MA-02: Franklin-Hampshire-Hampden-Worcester-Norfolk
MA-03: Worcester-Middlesex-Essex
MA-04: Worcester-Middlesex-Norfolk-Bristol-Plymouth
MA-05: Worcester-Middlesex-Suffolk
MA-06: Middlesex-Essex
MA-07: Middlesex-Norfolk-Suffolk
MA-08: Norfolk-Suffolk-Bristol-Plymouth
MA-09: Bristol-Plymouth-Barnstable-Dukes-Nantucket

While I'm at it I'll do the rest of New England just for fun.

VT-AL: Vermont (duh)
NH-01: Manchester-Winnipessaukee
NH-02: Nashua-Concord-White Mountains
ME-01: Portland-Augusta
ME-02: Aroostook-Bangor
RI-01: Providence-Newport
RI-02: Western Rhode Island
CT-01: Hartford
CT-02: Eastern Connecticut
CT-03: New Haven
CT-04: Bridgeport-Stamford
CT-05: Waterbury-Litchfield
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« Reply #19 on: September 24, 2015, 01:15:33 AM »

If this did happen, though, I wouldn't want American congressional district names to be as long and boring as those in the UK and Canada.


I think you mean "Sanders".
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« Reply #20 on: September 24, 2015, 07:27:16 AM »

OH-1: Western Cincinnati-Warren
OH-2: Eastern Cincinnati-Paint Creek
OH-3: Columbus
OH-4: Elyria-Lima
OH-5: Perrysburg-Findlay
OH-6: Eastern Ohio
OH-7: Canton-Mt. Vernon-Ashland
OH-8: Springfield-Hamilton
OH-9: Toledo-Sandusky
OH-10: Dayton-Kettering
OH-11: Cleveland
OH-12: Mansfield-Zanesville
OH-13: Youngstown-Akron
OH-14: Western Reserve
OH-15: West Jefferson-Tar Hollow
OH-16: Strongsville-Wooster
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« Reply #21 on: September 28, 2015, 03:04:43 PM »

I have 30 minutes to burn, so wish me luck with California....

CA-01: Mount Shasta and hicks
CA-02: We hate vaccines
CA-03: YOLO
CA-04: Lake Tahoe and Yosemite
CA-05: Let's get wine drunk
CA-06: The State Capital
CA-07: This part of Sacramento doesn't suck, we swear
CA-08: Tim Donnelly made us relevant
CA-09: World class dental school and California's Great America
CA-10: Stanislaus is a cool name, right?
CA-11: East SF Bay
CA-12: Can't afford to live here without six roommates
CA-13: Hippies and liberals
CA-14: We got screwed out of having San Francisco and Palo Alto
CA-15: Still wondering what happened to Pete Stark
CA-16: Fresno, the butt of every "places in California that suck" jokes
CA-17: Apple, Intel, Yahoo, and eBay
CA-18: Leland Stanford JUNIOR University (sucks)
CA-19: San Jose
CA-20: Monterey Bay Aquarium and Santa Cruz stoners
CA-21: Almonds
CA-22: Where Hispanics stay home on Election Day, so Republicans get elected
CA-23: Land, plus Kevin McCarthy's house
CA-24: College kids getting blasted on beaches
CA-25: Six Flags Magic Mountain
CA-26: Ventura
CA-27: On fire
CA-28: Abandoned NBC studios
CA-29: Porn studios
CA-30: Jews who only care about widening the 405
CA-31: Smog builds up here against the foothills
CA-32: Wow. The smog is getting really thick
CA-33: Celebrities, assorted rich people, gays
CA-34: Downtown LA
CA-35: Pointless urbanization
CA-36: Palm Springs and edgy music festivals
CA-37: USC and gentrification
CA-38: Apocalyptic 5 freeway widening project
CA-39: Fullerton and Diamond Bar
CA-40: East LA that's not actually LA
CA-41: The Inland Empire
CA-42: Lake Elsinore's algae problem
CA-43: Maxine "I'm butthurt because parts of South Central were cut out of my district during redistricting" Waters
CA-44: Janice "Being in Congress Sucks" Hahn, and LA Harbor
CA-45: Master planned suburbs
CA-46: Disneyland
CA-47: "26 miles across the sea, Santa Catalina is waiting for me"
CA-48: Duuddee, surfssss up, braaahhh
CA-49: Darrell Issa's $500 million is not stashed here
CA-50: Heat
CA-51: Immigrants
CA-52: Rich San Diegans
CA-53: Poor San Diegans
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« Reply #22 on: September 28, 2015, 04:17:37 PM »

CA-29: Porn studios
CA-30: Jews who only care about widening the 405

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« Reply #23 on: October 06, 2015, 08:38:55 PM »


This is my favorite. Cheesy
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« Reply #24 on: October 07, 2015, 02:07:16 PM »
« Edited: October 07, 2015, 02:10:03 PM by VPH »

KS-1: Earhart-Plains (Empty gigantic farmland)
KS-2: East Kansas (Economically depressed Southeast Kansas, the remains of a place once called Topeka)
KS-3: Kansas City Kansas (Poor inner city county, rich preppy white suburbs)
KS-4: Air Capital (The biggest small town around and some farmland)
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