News Texas Redistricting map is now up. Signed by gov.

Amol S.

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Congressional districts Plan 2021:

House Districts Plan 2021:

Senate Districts Plan 2021:

SBOE Districts Plan 2021:


All the maps are clickable. Clicking on a district shows a box with the racial demographic of the district, and also shows how many are Anglo or are Non-anglo.
The Senate district representing El Paso will be enlarged to include more of rural Texas. Same is seen with the current Congressional district of El Paso. The head of the aborted fetus like shape districts encompassing Houston, has been enlarged. The head , which will be district 18, now looks like Donald Trump with his hair in a side shot, or a fetus wearing a hat. The district that encompassed both San Antonio and Austin has been broken up. However, ironically the statistics are showing as border line with an irony of more minorities in the new districts. In the districts where the minority is not near majority, the Non-Anglos are the majority compared to the Anglos.
Dallas has been hit hard by the redistricting. A district border has run right thru Dallas, causing a major portions of Dallas to be merged with a large district that encompass rural Texas. I am referring to Texas six here.

 

HomerJS

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95% of the population gains in Texas in the last 10 years were from people of color yet whites gained seats.

I'll wait for the explanation
 

tweaker2

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As bad as things are now, all of you already know how hilarious the next redistricting is going to look when the number of folks of color keeps growing much faster than the whites in Texas between now and then, right?
 

hal2kilo

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Not sure now with this SCOTUS, but the North Carolina attempt was thrown out due to the gerrymandering being done for purely racist reasons. Some apparently still in court though.

Redistricting and North Carolina Elections Law (R. Joyce).doc.pdf (unc.edu)

Redistricting. In legislative and congressional redistricting, four cases remained active into 2018, and one is still very active. All of the cases have been to the United States Supreme Court and in two of them the Supreme Court ruled that the North Carolina General Assembly engaged in unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. One case—a landmark, groundbreaking partisan gerrymandering decision—is at the Supreme Court now. And a fifth case, in state court, has been found by a three-judge panel to have a high likelihood of success on the merits
 
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Amol S.

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sdifox

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It's called redistricting. After ever CENSUS, based of the total U.S. population and tbe population in each state, the Electoral Votes, Congressional seats, state Congressional seats, and SBOE Districts are either added, removed, or readjusted. More info can be found here.


No, it's gerrymandering. Redistricting is supposed to be census based, not subject to political interference.