Tag: redistricting

According to New America Media founder/executive director Sandy Close, ethnic voters “are the make or break in 2012’s elections.”

Blacks in California are breathing a sign of relief after GOP tricks during the redistricting process failed to redraw them out of electoral maps.

Latinos say new political maps are an improvement over first drafts released in June but still don't reflect big population gains over the past decade.

The unity proposal came in reaction to the new redistricting commission’s first set of maps, which carved up many communities of color, diluting their political power.

The first batch of political maps by California’s new Citizens Redistricting Commission is having exactly the effect that government reformers intended—shaking up the political status quo by ignoring incumbents and promising to make many statewide elections more competitive.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—It's an impending battle: the process of redistricting throughout the country, where Hispanic political interests are at stake. The eye of the hurricane will most likely be in states with high Latino populations like Texas, Nevada and California.

For minorities to take full advantage of California's new redistricting process, they must work to assure their "communities of interest" remain united, not divided.