CA 1 - basically the coastal areas north of Marin County. Not much different from how it is now. I'm not sure if it was strongly dem back then, but it gave Obama 65% in 08, and has a lot of hippie types living there. Riggs probably had an advantage because he had already represented the area of before and this was a rematch. Riggs gave up his seat in 98 to run against Boxer and has been replaced by Mike Thompson.
CA 19 - this district was basically a dixiecrat district as many people were descendants from West Texas and Oklahoma. Like many other dixiecrat districts in 1994, it finally flipped downballot. Despite the incredible bluing of California since then, Radanovich was able to hold on to its seat. He retired in 2010, and was replaced by Jeff Denham.
CA 49 - another surprising win. Basically took in all the limousine liberal precincts in San Diego and this district went for Gore in 2000, which was when Bilbray was unseated by Susan Davis. In 02, the district took in a lot of areas of CD 50 and was renamed district 53. The northern part of the district was added to District 51, and was renamed District 50. After Duke Cunningham got sent in the slammer, Bilbray made a comeback in that district.
That's all I got for now, I'll post some more tomorrow.
CA-1 was considered a "marginal" seat in 1994. Make of that what you will.
CA-19 - This is a part of CA that hasn't really blued as showed by Denham's strong numbers for a first timer.
CA-49 - Bilbray was and still is too some extent a moderate Republican. Because of his focus on immigration, which he was just as strong about in the 1990's, one might thing of him as a Duncan Hunter clone.
FL 1 - the Thurmondcrat part of Florida. Elected Earl Hutto who was a dixiecrat. Once he retired, they felt no need to elect any more democrats as the district was voting republican in all other races. This seat went to morning joe, and has been held by Jeff Miller since Scarborough resigned in 2001.
FL 15 - a very tourist-y part of Florida. It takes in a lot of coastal areas east of Orlando. Dave Weldon took in an open seat. He managed to survive 2006 before retiring in 2008
Georgia - the democrats really f---ed up bigtime here by packing Lewis and McKinney into two 75% dem districts. Not sure what exactly happened though except that they changed the lines again for 1996
Idaho 1 - another district the democrats probably had no business holding. A district that was otherwise republican and was held by Larry Craig in the 80s. The district was taken over by a dem when Craig vacated his seat for the 90 senate election. Surprisingly this seat was held by Walt Minnick for two years before the seat went republican once again in 2010
GA- They didn't really have a choice in the matter of packing those seats. As for 1996, either it was a mid decade partisan thing or a surpreme court mandated thing.
ID-01 - this seat behaves weirdly from time to time. The reason Minnick won was because Sali was a divisive guy with just as many enemies in the GOP as in the Dem party.
