Opinion of this redistricting proposal?

[TJ in Oregon]

I live the Mideast quite a bit and would be sad to see it go under this plan. Yet, it would be a lot of fun forming a committee to go through both constitutions and every law on the books in both regions to piece together a new region.

Lets see, 3 Regional Senate seats, 5 At-Large. Nope, no imbalance against the regions there.

We could do two senate seats from each regional. With five at large we would then have 11 senators. I suppose we could just get rid of the Vice-Presidency then as well.

No. No. No. I like Ohio right where it is, and the Virginias can stay as well. By all means, shove Maryland off to the North-East. Aside from that, however, No.

I'm glad to be wanted

[TJ in Oregon]

We could do four regions and have four regional and four at-large senators:

I just drew this really quick without checking how it would change things, but we could gerrymander it to make two competitive regions and one safe for each party (and to make the populations work).

[TJ in Oregon]

I guess the question for four regions becomes, how much effort should we put into population equity? I mean the Northeast is still rather overpopulated even if we take away PA. The current Pacific is barely half the ideal size for a new region (34.5 persons) so it would need to gobble up a lot.