I wish everyone would stop with the "room to grow" nonsense. None of us can predict when and where growth will take place. At the state body meeting it was stated that one of the reasons for the redistricting was due to growth in D2. That is not accurate. District 2 numbers had been in decline for years, until the redistricting of three years ago. In fact, that is one of the reasons that brought about the idea of doing away with subs in D2, that being the lack of competitor numbers to host a sub and make money on it. That is the reason D2 had been an advocate for redistricting for years, in order to increase our competitor numbers.
When the counties from far eastern Kansas were added to D2 three years ago, of course our numbers increased.