That does explain a lot more of what happened. Before using PROC GREMOVE, I was trying to reduce the records by sorting X and Y and taking every 10th record. Now that I have reverted to the original shapefile source, it is looking better, but I an still getting a lot of lines running back and forth over the map. I believe this is because some of my regions, while in the same region, are not continuous (for example, having WA, OR and NM in a "West" region, but not CA). I am thinking I may be able to get around this be defining labels for only continuous regions and then just using the annotate step to label them, but is there a better way to do this? So that SAS doesn't draw lines back and forth over the regions.
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