Also from the previous link,Quote:
Originally Posted by speechlesstx
And that's your example of embracing minorities? Seems to me if latino populations led to Texas gaining 4 new representatives in the congress then shouldn't they have a chance for 4 latino reps?Quote:
When the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, many of the voters who were plainly excluded and faced danger if they tried to vote were African-American. A smaller number were Mexican Americans living in Southwestern states. Today, the country's population is changing, and so too are the tactics used to limit the influence of minority voters, Barreto said.
Just last year, the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) won a legal dispute with the state of Texas over proposed election districts. Texas won four new Congressional seats, almost entirely due to growth in its Latino population. State officials working to draw new district lines complied with the letter of the Voting Rights Act by creating new districts, including at least one where Latinos would make up the majority of voters and therefore stand a better chance of being able to elect and send their candidate of choice to Congress. But, in a series of emails between state staff working to draw new district lines, it became clear that the new districts were actually designed to violate the spirit of the Voting Rights Act.
State officials drew a new “minority majority” district in such a way that voters with Spanish surnames who do not often vote were concentrated in one district and those with Spanish surnames who have a record of voting frequently were pushed into predominantly white and Republican voting zones.
Section Five and other sections of the Voting Rights Act helped federal officials and MALDEF to halt the plan.
Of course diluting their voting power keeps you guys in power. I really think minorities want you to stop embracing them.
It's a bunch of lip service.
