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« on: July 23, 2009, 02:40:07 PM »
Quote from: memphis on July 23, 2009, 01:51:54 PM
The Voting Rights Act districts should be fun. Negroes of Maryland perhaps...

The Earmuffs Empire of Chicago.
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« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2009, 03:42:48 PM »
Quote from: Meeker on July 23, 2009, 03:20:47 PM
Don't they sometimes, especially in Australia, name them after famous residents of the constituency/near-by area?

In the US, that would probably result in them being named for their current congresspeople...

(Quebec also does that sometimes, both federally and provincially. It's also worth pointing out that the em-dash is Canadian style; in Britain, they would use "and" instead.)
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« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2009, 05:07:59 PM »
« Edited: August 03, 2009, 08:28:16 PM by Verily »
NY-01: Suffolk Outer
NY-02: Suffolk Inner
NY-03: Levittown and Islip
NY-04: Hempstead
NY-05: Great Neck and Queens Flushing
NY-06: Queens Jamaica
NY-07: Bronx East and Queens Elmhurst
NY-08: Manhattan West and Brooklyn Gravesend
NY-09: Brooklyn Marine Park, Queens Woodhaven and Rockaway
NY-10: Brooklyn Bedford-Stuyvesant and New Lots
NY-11: Brooklyn Prospect Park
NY-12: Brooklyn Williamsburg and Greenwood
NY-13: Staten Island and Brooklyn Bay Ridge
NY-14: Manhattan East and Queens Astoria
NY-15: Manhattan North
NY-16: Bronx South
NY-17: Bronx North and Rockland
NY-18: Westchester (alternatively, White Plains)
NY-19: Hudson Valley South
NY-20: Hudson Valley North
NY-21: Albany and Schenectady
NY-22: Kingston and Ithaca
NY-23: Watertown and the Adirondacks
NY-24: Utica and Auburn (I don't know, this district sucks)
NY-25: Syracuse
NY-26: Batavia
NY-27: Buffalo
NY-28: Rochester and Niagara Falls
NY-29: Southern Tier
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« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2009, 07:31:44 PM »
« Edited: July 31, 2009, 07:33:31 PM by Verily »
Quote from: SoFA EarlAW on July 31, 2009, 05:19:29 PM
"outer" and "inner" should never be used in constituency names. I don't think they do that in the UK, do they?

York Outer is a constituency on the new UK map. Plus, Suffolk Outer and Suffolk Inner describe the two seats better than Suffolk East and Suffolk West, which doesn't capture that the eastern seat is rural and exurban while the western seat is suburban.
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« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2009, 08:44:33 PM »
« Edited: August 05, 2009, 10:31:51 AM by Verily »
NJ 1 - Camden
NJ 2 - Atlantic City and Vineland
NJ 3 - Willingboro, Mount Holly and Toms River
NJ 4 - Trenton East, Freehold and Point Pleasant
NJ 5 - Piedmont
NJ 6 - New Brunswick and Long Branch
NJ 7 - Scotch Plains and something? (I don't know.)
NJ 8 - Paterson
NJ 9 - Hackensack
NJ 10 - Newark
NJ 11 - Morristown
NJ 12 - Trenton West and the Brunswicks
NJ 13 - Jersey City
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