The Art of the Texas Gerrymander: U.S. House District 9

Wind-Damaged Umbrella

Wikipedia

This time, it's all about diluting the state's Black representation in Congress.

 

Al Green (D-Houston) won a 10th term in Congress with 77.4% of the vote.

Ballotpedia

The Texas Tribune, 10/4/2021

“It doesn’t look right for the only two persons in the state of Texas to be running against each other in a congressional district from the same party to be of African ancestry,” Green said at a hearing of the the Texas Senate Special Committee on Redistricting. 

Green and Jackson Lee are two out of five Black members of Texas’ 36-person congressional delegation, but in the proposed redrawing of the districts, Lee is drawn out of her own district and looped into Green’s. 

“Thirty-eight districts,” Green said, noting the two new congressional districts added to Texas because of population growth, which was fueled by people of color. “Two African Americans running against each other in the proposed map.” [emphasis added]

Related posts:

District 1.  (4/19/2023)

District 2.  (4/19/2023)

District 3.  (4/19/2023)

District 4.  (4/21/2023)

District 5.  (4/21/2023)

District 6.  (4/21/2023)

District 7.  (4/24/2023)

District 8.  (4/24/2023)