It’s 2019. Do you know who your representative is?

Those trying to keep up with the names and contact information of their state and federal representatives have needed to double their efforts to be informed of late.

Just in the last five years, we’ve gone from having Alma Adams, D-12, Virginia Foxx, R-5, and Richard Hudson, R-8, as our members of the U.S. House to just Hudson and Ted Budd, R-13.

While Adams and Foxx are still members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation representing districts of the same number, their district boundaries have been moved elsewhere. That’s a result of a 2016 federal court ruling in which judges said North Carolina’s 1st and 12th congressional districts were racial gerrymanders. In a redrawing of the congressional map, Rowan swapped the 5th and 12th districts for the 13th and, following the 2016 election, Davie County’s Ted Budd became the congressman for Salisbury and much of west Rowan.

A similar story has played out recently in the county’s delegation to the state legislature, too. For several years, Rowan County’s representation in the state House was easy to remember — Rep. Harry Warren, R-77, and Rep. Carl Ford, R-76. Meanwhile, former Sen. Andrew Brock represented the 34th District, which included a portion of Rowan County, for more than a decade. In recent years, the 25th Senate District also extended into Rowan.

Starting this week, however, Rowan County’s representation in the N.C. General Assembly, while including two of the same faces, will include an entirely different map.

Rowan County will have one state senator — Ford, who sought a state Senate seat after of a redrawn map double-bunked him with friend and fellow legislator Larry Pittman. That map, you guessed it, came as a result of a court ruling.

Warren stays a state representative for Rowan County but takes Ford’s old district number. Warren also takes over much of the area Ford formerly represented. In the past, districts have split Salisbury, but Warren’s district stretches farther north than Ford’s, catching the city of Salisbury, Spencer and East Spencer.

Davie County’s Julia Howard will take over Warren’s former 77th district, which now includes Davie and part of Rowan counties.

Finally, Cabarrus County’s Larry Pittman moves to the 83rd District— mostly within Cabarrus County but also including parts of south Rowan such as China Grove.