I figured that problem out now - it was actually an issue with my catx statement in the data step that preps the data before the macro is run. I think I'm pretty close to figuring this out, I'm just going to have to figure out how to get some of the labels to go to the northwest of their state as opposed to the southeast. I think that will make the text readable. ... View more

Thanks. I think this does answer my question pretty well. We shouldn't need to re-develop the model unless we know of a significant change happening within the data, or we notice poor model performance. ... View more