In the Nov. 17, 2010, email, Opelia asked Interiano to look for specific data about Hispanic populations and voting patterns.
“These metrics would be useful to identify the ‘nudge factor’ by which one can analyze which census blocks, when added to a particular district [they] help pull the district’s Total Hispanic pop … to majority status, but leave the Spanish surname RV [registered voters] and TO [turnout] the lowest,” Opiela writes to the mapmaker.
http://www.salon.com/2014/07/14/texa...ails_revealed/
Are you able to defend, to rationalize, drawing up voting districts based on race and voting patterns?
It doesn't seem fair or right, but I have never really understood how voting districts are established in the first place.
What do you think?
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