With a population of just over one million people, Rhode Island has only two Congressional Districts.  Both districts share Providence, Rhode Island's capital city.  The Second Congressional District occupies, for the most part, the western half of Rhode Island, often referred to as "West Bay".  While the First District includes many mill towns, the Second as most of its population in working and middle class towns like Cranston and Warwick which, despite their British names, are inhabited mostly by people with Irish, Italian, French and Portuguese surnames.  The Second District also includes the fastest-growing part of the state: South County, which is not an official place but the common name for Rhode Island south of East Greenwich, including the affluent suburbs to the south along Narragansett Bay, the Kingston home of the University of Rhode Island, and the area around Westerly.  It includes Rhode Island's rolling farm land, though there is not that much acreage, and the communities along the Bay and the Ocean, where many people still make their living building boats and catching fish.