Iowa Consolidation to 4 Districts

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

First off, there seems to be no reasonable prospect of a southern district. The five southern councils combined only add up to .588 of a district. Area XV might eventually be part of either a southeastern district or an eastern district but not a southern district, so Union and Ringold seemed to be favoring SWIPCO instead as they looked ahead to forming a largely rural western district.

Secondly, it's clear from looking at the whole map, CIRTPA is going to be a district, minus one or more counties. Joining CIRTPA is likely a holding action prior to being split off again, so several Guthrieites were against that idea. Better to get it over now rather than having to do it later unless there were some CIRTPA countries that wanted to not be part of a Des Moines district.

For that matter, there were some rumblings in Chariton Valley that if they joined Area XV, they'd eventually end up as part of a Cedar Rapids dominated district. If they wanted to be part of a mainly rural district, their only option was to get themselves and SICOG merged into SWIPCO as a prelude to hopefully being part of a western district. Over in SICOG, Clarke and Decatur indicated they'd go along with whatever the Charitonites decided.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

This is pretty close to final.


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But I don't think your final tweak is optimal.  Starting from the above, I begin by making the I-80 counties be the northern edge of the Southeast district by moving Jasper and Iowa Counties to the Southeast and Jones and Jackson to the Northeast. Then to balance it out, the Southeast cedes Lucas to the West and then either the West cedes Worth to the Northeast or exchanges Hardin for Mitchell depending upon whether lower deviation or keeping I-35 north of Des Moines all in the West is considered more important.