Bad Redistricting Deal in Texas
source: http://www.politicsplus.org/blog/2012/02/07/bad-redistricting-deal-in-texas/
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- TomCat1948
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Texas gained four seats in the US house in the last census, due to population growth. The entire population increase was Hispanic. Naturally Texas Republicans gerrymandered the redistricting so blatantly that all four new districts would have been controlled by whites. The San Antonio Federal Court rejected the Republican redistricting and created their own map with four new Hispanic districts, properly representing the change in population. SCOTUS overruled the Federal court’s districts and told Texas to redo the plan. In the meantime, Texas’ primaries are rapidly approaching, so the Texas Republicans made a deal with some Hispanic groups. I think it’s a bad deal.
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kvb1
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It is a massively bad deal for Hispanics. Not only will they not be properly represented during the primaries, they will be under represented when the RIPublicans continue to hold the state legislature.
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kvb1
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TomCat1948
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kvb1:
Thank you. My point exactly.
- 4 months ago
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TomCat1948
