XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.democrats.d, or.politics
On 2024-07-21 13:59:15 +0000, Cricton said:
They say they're keeping the black man away from the polls and in the
fields where he belongs.
BACKGROUND ON TEXAS'S PROPOSED GERRYMANDER:
The proposed gerrymander packs voters of color into as few districts as possible in some areas and cracks them across several districts in
others, effectively reducing the overall number of districts where
Black and Latino voters are able to elect candidates of their choice.
Here are several examples that demonstrate how this is being done:
SAN ANTONIO: The new configuration in the San Antonio metro area packs
Latino voters into TX-20, and cracks the urban, Latino populations in
San Antonio between three sprawling districts, TX-21, TX-23 and TX-25,
that dilute the voice of urban Latino votes by drawing them into
districts with otherwise rural white constituencies.
DALLAS: In Dallas, Black and Latino voters were packed aggressively
into TX-30 and TX-33, while cracking remaining voters of color across surrounding majority white districts -- TX-5, TX-6, TX-12, TX-24,
TX-25, and TX-32.
AUSTIN: In Austin, the existing Latino opportunity district, TX-35, was dismantled by cracking Latino communities and combining them with white
voters as far as Huntsville and Corpus Christi.
HOUSTON: In Harris County, Republicans eliminated TX-9, a long-standing
Black opportunity district, and packed those voters into the only other Black-majority district in Houston, TX-18, essentially halving the
number of districts where Black voters have the opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice.
"In states like Texas, where voting is deeply polarized along racial
lines, the only way to eke out an even more extreme gerrymander is to
mount a wholesale attack on the political power of the growing
communities of color who have accounted for nearly all of the state's population gain since 2020. In fact, the newly proposed map seems drawn
to invite Voting Rights Act challenges across the state, especially
from massively growing Latino communities. And in a state where the
Black population grown by more than any other, the number of Black
Democrats could be cut from four to just two." -- Michael Li, Senior
Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice's Democracy Program [Houston Chronicle: Opinion: Redistricting by Texas Republicans puts Washington
D.C. over the rights of Texans]
https://democraticredistricting.com/ndrc-proposed-texas-gerrymander-reduces-latino-and-black-opportunity-districts/
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