1.   If the Court imposes new boundaries, Worcester County would have a district that cuts across the county, picking up black neighborhoods in three towns.

2.   Indiana has two districts that should provide early clues about the next Congress.

3.   Now we have districts.

4.   Presently, the council has four districts wholly in the Valley and three partly in the Valley.

5.   Rep. Pickering, on the other hand, said justice was being done because the federal court map has compact districts.

6.   State senators, ordinarily an intimate link between people and politics, have bigger districts than members of the US House.

7.   The challenges were not nearly as daunting in Philadelphia and Houston, which already had thriving districts.

8.   The sticking point has been Long Island, where the two Democratic representatives, Steve Israel and Carolyn McCarthy, both have Republican-leaning districts.

9.   The upshot for Okayama, a largely agricultural area with some heavy industry, is that voters there now have five districts instead of two.