It would be nice if the 10th CD lost Quincy/Weymouth and picked up some more suburbs. I wonder where in the state the population loss has been? My guess would be the West of 495 along route 2. Some of those places are really hollowed out shells of communities.
I think I made a mistake with PA so I’ll redo that one in the days ahead.
MA: It looks that Western Mass has enough for its 2 districts. The current 1st has a tiny piece of Middlesex, but there should be about 166K residents in Worcester County left over. The current 3rd stretches from Worcester to Fall River. That would be the logical direction to go.
Essex County in the northeast has enough to preserve the 6th; Suffolk (Boston) has enough for the 8th.
Middlesex has enough for the bulk of their two seats, the 5th and the 7th. I hadn’t realized Barney lives there as well at the northern tip of the 4th. He could challenge Markey or Tsongas, but it would be on their turf.
It does look to me that the southeast will have to lose a seat. I’m thinking the 3rd will stretch to Worcester, as it does now, with there being a district that looks like the 10th (possibly renumbered as the 4th), and then an expanded 9th.