Renaming Congressional districts

[Torie]

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Indiana 1: The Region (AKA cut this off and give it to Illinois)
Indiana 2: Northern Indiana (Aka Irish Fandom)
Indiana 3: Northwest Indiana (AKA Northern Accent Southern Voting)
Indiana 4: North Central Indiana (Birthplace of the Car, sorry Boilermakers but Elwood Haynes is more important)
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)

[Bismarck]

Hey man don't diss my boilers.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Like British parliament consituencies?  Ooooh, count me in!

Michigan 1: Upper & Northern Lower Peninsulas
Michigan 2: Lake Michigan Shore
Michigan 3: Grand Rapids & Outer West
Michigan 4: Central Lower
Michigan 5: I-75 Corridor
Michigan 6: Southwest/Michiana
Michigan 7: South Central
Michigan 8: Lansing & Exurbs
Michigan 9: Southern Oakland & Macomb
Michigan 10: Thumb & Northern Macomb
Michigan 11: Novi & Livonia ("Wealthy Suburbs", maybe?)
Michigan 12: Ann Arbor & Southern Wayne
Michigan 13: South Detroit Suburbs
Michigan 14: Northeast Detroit

[cinyc]

Upper Hudson is a bad name for your CD.  It's Mid-Hudson.  The Hudson River flows for miles past Albany.  Upper Hudson would be Albany and/or above.  Even the bridge across the river in Poughkeepsie is called the Mid-Hudson Bridge, which is in or near the southern part of the district.  And isn't one of the cable companies in Columbia and Greene Counties called Mid-Hudson Cable?

[Joe Republic]

Like British parliament consituencies?  Ooooh, count me in!

Michigan 5: I-75 Corridor

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[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

The most sensible solution would be to name the most inexplicable districts after famous past politicians and people the area is associated with.

[Joe Republic]

The most sensible solution would be to name the most inexplicable districts after famous past politicians and people the area is associated with.

I for one propose that the awful mouthful of 'Morley & Outwood' be given the much more aesthetically pleasing name of 'Balls'.

[SillyAmerican]

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

Nice! That is California...

[Torie]

Upper Hudson is a bad name for your CD.  It's Mid-Hudson.  The Hudson River flows for miles past Albany.  Upper Hudson would be Albany and/or above.  Even the bridge across the river in Poughkeepsie is called the Mid-Hudson Bridge, which is in or near the southern part of the district.  And isn't one of the cable companies in Columbia and Greene Counties called Mid-Hudson Cable?

Oh because 1) there are better names for the upper  Hudson area, which I used, so that leaves a bifurcation nomenclature, rather than a trifurcation one, 2) sure, water is flowing north of Troy, but ceases to dominate the mind's eye, the way it does at Troy and to the south. It's wild up there, with mountains dominating, not a nascent stream. Effectively, when the bottom of the Hudson riverbed goes above sea level, it ends. Hope that helps.

[Bigby]

Allow me to try Georgia.

GA-01: Oglethorpe
GA-02: South Columbus
GA-03: North Columbus
GA-04: DeKalb
GA-05: Atlanta Central
GA-06: North Fulton
GA-07: Greater Roswell
GA-08: Ocmulgee
GA-09: Chattahoochee
GA-10: New Greece (For Athens and Sparta)
GA-11: Cherokee
GA-12: Ogeechee (Alternatively "Georgia Southernland" )
GA-13: South Fulton
GA-14: Piedmont