por admin » Vie May 14, 2010 7:58 am
Esta es la realidad de los hispanos en algunos estados.
Los hispanos en Texas enjuiciaron al estado por que no tienen representantes elegidos en el gobierno. El 30% del estado es hispano.
Por tal motivo se trazaron distritos donde vive la mayoria de hispanos para garantizar que un hispano ganaria. Entonces, que paso? gano un negro y en otro donde la mayoria son blancos gano un hispano. Lo que prueba que el sistema de Texas no era racista como los hispanos gritaban a todo pulmon.
Still Segregating Voters
Texas defies racial gerrymandering
The courts and the U.S. Congress continue to insist that racially gerrymandered voting districts are necessary to elect minority candidates, but election returns tell another story.
On Saturday, Irving, Texas held its first city council elections under a new system imposed by a federal court last year. Hispanic activists had sued the city, which is more than 40% Latino, arguing that Irving's at-large system was discriminatory because no Hispanic had ever won a council seat. As part of the settlement, Irving created six single-member voting districts—including one that was drawn specifically to ensure the election of an Hispanic—and two at-large districts. So what happened?
The newly created "Hispanic district" was won by Mike Gallaway, a black candidate who easily beat Trini Gonzalez, an Hispanic. And Roy Santoscoy, another Hispanic, defeated a white incumbent for one of the open at-large seats that was supposedly out of reach to Hispanics due to Irving's allegedly racist voting system.
Texas is hardly an outlier when it comes to upending the notion that racial gerrymandering is necessary because whites vote in lock step against minority candidates. U.S. Representatives Keith Ellison of Minnesota and Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri are black Democrats who represent districts that are more than 60% white. In 2008 President Obama did better among white voters in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and Texas than either John Kerry or Al Gore had done.
"The irony is that the American voter has moved on," says Edward Blum, an expert on the Voting Rights Act at the American Enterprise Institute. "He's willing to take race and ethnicity out of the election equation, yet the liberal advocacy groups and the courts refuse to accept this reality."