In May of 2012, I wrote this diary announcing that I was going to do a series of DailyKos diaries illustrating how each state's congressional and state legislative districts would look like if there was one member of the U.S. House of Representatives for every 100,000 people.
Well, I completely forgot about what I was planning to do not long after I wrote the original diary, so I'm going to make the following announcement: sometime in the next few days, you're going to see the first diary in the Hundred Thousand Rule fantasy redistricting series. The first diary in the series will cover Wyoming and Vermont. I already have the maps for Wyoming and Vermont saved on my hard drive, and I'll spend the next couple of days creating detailed sets of spreadsheets using Google Sheets and the CD data that DRA provides, as well as images of the hypothetical districts of the first two states in my series.
Additionally, I'm going to do my series based on a hypothetical 3,082-seat U.S. House of Representatives (one seat for every 100,000 residents who live in the 50 states, rounded up), instead of a 3,081-seat House like I originally planned on doing. I did a spreadsheet showing how many seats each state would be apportioned if there were 3,092 House seats here, and here's how many seats each state would be apportioned if there were 3,082 House seats:
Alabama - 48
Alaska - 7
Arizona - 64
Arkansas - 29
California - 373
Colorado - 50
Connecticut - 36
Delaware - 9
Florida - 188
Georgia - 97
Hawaii - 14
Idaho - 16
Illinois - 128
Indiana - 65
Iowa - 30
Kansas - 29
Kentucky - 43
Louisiana - 45
Maine - 13
Maryland - 58
Massachusetts - 65
Michigan - 99
Minnesota - 53
Mississippi - 30
Missouri - 60
Montana - 10
Nebraska - 18
Nevada - 27
New Hampshire - 13
New Jersey - 88
New Mexico - 21
New York - 194
North Carolina - 95
North Dakota - 7
Ohio - 115
Oklahoma - 38
Oregon - 38
Pennsylvania - 127
Rhode Island - 11
South Carolina - 46
South Dakota - 8
Tennessee - 63
Texas - 251
Utah - 28
Vermont - 6
Virginia - 80
Washington - 67
West Virginia - 19
Wisconsin - 57
Wyoming - 6
Sometime this weekend, I'll have the first diary in my Hundred Thousand Rule fantasy redistricting series online. I apologize for the extremely long wait.