Extreme S-TX Gerrymandering - how an idiot Hispanic Rethug took an age-old Dem district

[UTUSN]

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Looking for a graphic of the Repuke Gerrymandered map - a district like a snake from the river to south of San Antonio, 300 miles away.

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https://riograndeguardian.com/angle-republicans-gerrymandered-cd-15-by-reducing-hispanic-voting-strength/

Angle: Republicans gerrymandered CD 15 by reducing Hispanic voting strength

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The founder and director of the Lone Star Project says Republicans gerrymandered the 15th Congressional District of Texas by “They have got a namek for it. It is called the nudge factor. Nudge the political numbers one way or the other but keep the actual racial percentages very close to the same. It will show up in the Citizen Voting Age Population. It is just to get the White percentage to go up a little bit. It does not have to go up more than a point or two before it becomes the difference between winning and losing,” Angle said. diluting the voting strength of Hispanics citizens. ....

“It is called the nudge factor. How do Republicans reduce the Hispanic voting strength without reducing the population? The way you do that is you reduce the Hispanic participants in the election. You do that with Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP). Thus, you increase the White Citizen Voting Age Population. That is what they did in District 15,” Angle said. ....

“Republicans, as long as I have been involved in politics, have talked about reaching out to Hispanics but they really don’t want to win the Hispanic vote. They just want to get enough so that the White vote is decisive.”

Asked why the Voting Rights Act could not have prevented the changes made to the boundary lines of CD 15, Angle said: “That is a really good point. If the Voting Rights Act pre-clearance provisions had been in place the Congressional District 15 map could never have gone into effect. Because it clearly retrogressed Congressional District 15. It reduced the voting strength of Latinos.” ....

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That's the wingnut in red (Monica DE LA CRUZ); Bernie campaigning for Michelle VALLEJO:

[DFW]

1. Matt Angle is tireless

He has been working the frustrating cause of Texas Democrats for decades. My nephew in Northern Virginia interned with Matt for a full summer one year at his D.C. office.

[LeftInTX]

2. Interesting about the age factor

Guadalupe County is extremely red, Wilson County is red, Karnes County is red. They removed parts of Hildago County and put it in CD 34

I live in San Antonio and was redistricted to CD 23 from CD 20. I hate CD 23.....

[UTUSN]

3. That's the graphic, thanks. "If Voting Rights Act" had not been gutted, this would not pass.

"clearly retrogressed".

and

“Republicans, as long as I have been involved in politics, have talked about reaching out to Hispanics but they really don’t want to win the Hispanic vote. They just want to get enough so that the White vote is decisive.”

[LeftInTX]

6. Here's the source

The easiest way to find it is to Google, "Texas district viewer"

https://dvr.capitol.texas.gov/

[ananda]

4. This is what I was talking about earlier.

Texas Reeps decided to go after Black districts
and ones like this in the valley.

I got my district back, but it's little comfort
when I see what happened elsewhere in Texas.

[UTUSN]

5. They're bald about their plans. The other District/28 is where Blue Dog Henry CUELLAR is.

CUELLAR spends tons of time on Fox ripping Dems about the Border. However, gotta say, in the end he votes with PELOSI and has been endorsed by her when he's been primaried by Progressive Jessica CISNEROS.

So the wingnuts say it out loud: "They keep going after CUELLAR by running little Progressives against him. When they finally get him, THEN we will beat the Progressive in the General with a REAL (wingnut)."

They are willing to USE Cuellar in the meantime, biding their time to skewer him.