“How 6 Electoral Regions are set up in U.S.” - 1995

“How 6 Electoral Regions are set up in U.S.”

The "Trustees' Recommendations on Structure" call for six electoral divisions or regions in the U.S. from which Area Trustees would be chosen, rather than from single states. Details are covered in their recommendations. As background, these two maps will give you a picture of the old divisions, and one version of a new divisioning.

(Remember that New York Connecticut and New Jersey do not appear in any of these divisions. They are excluded because Class B General Service Trustees are selected from these states.)

OLD DIVISIONS

MAP A shows the five present divisions -- the divisions used in the present system whereby a Trustee Nominee is selected by a single state. Each of the two U.S. Area Trusteeships is filled from Divison A, B, C, D or E in rotation. The Trustee Nominee comes first from the state (within a division) that has the most A.A.'s; then from the next most populated, etc.

For example, the newest U.S. Area Trustee -- Tom Sharpe -- came from Division C because it was next in rotation -- and from Florida because it had the most A.A.'s of the ten states in Division C.

NEW DIVISIONS

MAP B shows six regions or divisions that are closer to the normal divisioning of the country. That is, these regions follow more closely the normal economic and geographic patterns of the U.S.

They are accepted marketing maps for the U.S. with these exceptions:

1. New York, Connecticut and New Jersey have been lifted out and the remaining Mid-Atlantic and New England states have been combined to make a Northeast Region.
2. The Pacific Region includes Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands.
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The boundaries of these six divisions are not final. The Trustees have recommended that a combined Conference and Board Committee study the situation carefully -- to provide the best possible pattern of A.A. activity and growth with respect to groups, cities, states and regions.