Latino and Black Voters Fight for Map Power in Texas Congressional Redistricting - NYTimes.com: ...The state’s Hispanic population is blooming, and its black population grew faster than its Anglo population. But Anglos still dominate the political maps, and Latinos dominate the part of the political maps controlled by minorities.
When the Legislature drew political lines, minority groups were in widespread agreement that the maps didn’t reflect the growth; there were not enough seats where minority voters had the ability to decide elections.
Texas outgrew the other states in the country, so much so that it added 4 seats to the 32 already in its Congressional delegation.
Minority groups argued that growth in minority populations accounted for 89 percent of the state’s growth between 2000 and 2010, and that should be the starting place for how the new seats were divvied up.
But when three federal judges in San Antonio unveiled their Congressional map late last month, two of the four new seats had Latino majorities and two have Anglo majorities.
