The process for creating a congressional district map in Texas is known as redistricting this is where the states decide how each district will be drawn depending on the population of the area. The strengths of redistricting is that you can change the size of the district depending on the population change like back in 2011, the U.S Census released the 2010 census and it revealed that Texas had a population growth of 25.1 million which was a 20.6% growth which was the highest change in population out of any other state (Sauter 251). Redistricting also can change the number of representatives in Texas for instance, back in 2011 the House of Representatives had a reapportionment to add an extra four seats to Texas and had to redraw the congressional
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This is what is said in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 so then, why is this happening where they’re manipulating that minority power is strong in Texas when actually minorities are being singled out of voting for a Democratic nominee. This resulted in backlash from minority advocacy groups who were furious that the majority of people in the population had no connection with the demographics of the people living in Texas which resulted back in 2011, of the four new district seats that were added only one was a majority minority district which had no connection with the growth of the population which said that 37.6% of the total population of Texas was represented by Hispanics (Sauter 254). The Voting Rights Act of 1964 also created the problem of majority minority districts because it states that there should be a majority minority district, but it doesn’t state what makes it a majority minority district, so Texas could only count the Hispanic citizens as the majority minority but not the entire Hispanic population of Texas (Sauter …show more content…
This way you get a clear sense of who living in Texas, where did the majority of the citizens either come from or what race they are, and the economic status of the citizens to see who in poverty, middle class, and upper class in the state of Texas. The best solution would be to have a set of rules that the states must followed in order for them to able to redistrict, one the map will no longer be drawn by state legislators, instead use government officials to draw in the new maps so that it far for both parties and that they are on a equal playing field. Second would be to have a yearly census for the states so that not only do we have the current population of the state, but we are clear as to what percent of the population are Hispanic, Asian, etc. You also place economic sanctions against the states who try to gerrymander the population so that they learn that if they do the state will owe money to the federal government and Finally limit the amount of representatives the state have if their caught gerrymandering and each time their caught more loss representatives they have, this shows that their actions will be accounted for and they will have consequences for
This is what is said in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 so then, why is this happening where they’re manipulating that minority power is strong in Texas when actually minorities are being singled out of voting for a Democratic nominee. This resulted in backlash from minority advocacy groups who were furious that the majority of people in the population had no connection with the demographics of the people living in Texas which resulted back in 2011, of the four new district seats that were added only one was a majority minority district which had no connection with the growth of the population which said that 37.6% of the total population of Texas was represented by Hispanics (Sauter 254). The Voting Rights Act of 1964 also created the problem of majority minority districts because it states that there should be a majority minority district, but it doesn’t state what makes it a majority minority district, so Texas could only count the Hispanic citizens as the majority minority but not the entire Hispanic population of Texas (Sauter …show more content…
This way you get a clear sense of who living in Texas, where did the majority of the citizens either come from or what race they are, and the economic status of the citizens to see who in poverty, middle class, and upper class in the state of Texas. The best solution would be to have a set of rules that the states must followed in order for them to able to redistrict, one the map will no longer be drawn by state legislators, instead use government officials to draw in the new maps so that it far for both parties and that they are on a equal playing field. Second would be to have a yearly census for the states so that not only do we have the current population of the state, but we are clear as to what percent of the population are Hispanic, Asian, etc. You also place economic sanctions against the states who try to gerrymander the population so that they learn that if they do the state will owe money to the federal government and Finally limit the amount of representatives the state have if their caught gerrymandering and each time their caught more loss representatives they have, this shows that their actions will be accounted for and they will have consequences for