[Dog Gone]

A district needs to have about 650,000 residents. Midland-Odessa has a little over 200,000, unless it's grown a lot since I last visited.

In the past, it's been paired with suburban San Antonio in order to get enough residents to form a district.

Your analysis is absolutely correct. While I understand the "Petroplex" has different concerns than Lubbock, it's impossible to make everyone happy.

[txradioguy]

Actually, if you throw Big Spring, Monahans, Stanton, Lamesa, and a couple other smaller town in there, you'd get the numbers you need. And the 200,000 figure is just for the CITIES of Midland and Odessa alone. That doesn't take intro consideration the population in Ector and Midland counties. The Midland/Odessa "area" could certainly support it's own congressional district.