Texas House proposes map that increases Republican strength and decreases Black and Hispanic

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Texas House proposes map that increases Republican strength and decreases Black and Hispanic majority districts

by Cassandra Pollock and Carla Astudillo, Texas Tribune


Texas House members on Thursday released its first proposal for a new map redrawing the chamber's 150-member districts. The initial draft would both increase Republicans' strength across the state and the number of districts in which white residents make up a majority of eligible voters.

House Bill 1, authored by Corpus Christi Rep. Todd Hunter, the GOP chair of the House Redistricting Committee, is just the first draft, and it will likely change as it makes its way through the legislative process before it’s signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott. The House committee will hold a public hearing 9 a.m. Monday to discuss this first version of the chamber's map.

The Texas Legislature is in the midst of its third special session, which is dedicated to redrawing political maps based on the latest census data. Those numbers, released earlier this year, showed people of color fueled 95% of Texas’ population growth over the past decade.

The new map though would create fewer districts where Black and Hispanic people make up a majority of eligible voters. Black and Hispanic Texans make up two racial groups that along with Asian Texans outpaced the growth of white residents in the state over the last decade.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/30/texas-house-redistricting-map/

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