Cracking Houston
Sylvia Garcia (D-Houston) won a 3rd term in Congress with nearly 71.8% of the vote in 2022.
Community Impact, 11/1/2021
Between 2010 and 2020, roughly 95% of population growth in Texas was driven by people of color with most of the growth occurring among Asian, Hispanic and Black communities, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. That population growth also brought two new congressional districts to the state for a total of 38 districts.
However, when looking at citizen voting-age populations, the number of congressional districts with white majorities across the state increased by one under the new maps from 22 to 23. At the same time, the number of districts with Hispanic majorities and Black majorities both fell by one—from eight to seven and from one to zero, respectively—and the number of districts with no racial majority grew by three, from five to eight, according to the Texas Legislative Council.
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State Sen. Joan Huffman, who served as the chair of the Senate Redistricting Committee, defended the maps at several public hearings that were held throughout the process and said they comply with the Voting Rights Act.
“We drew these maps race blind,” Huffman said at a September public hearing on the maps. “We have not looked at any racial data as we drew these maps.”
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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)
District 9. (4/25/2023)
District 10. (4/25/2023)
District 11. (4/26/2023)
District 12. (4/26/2023)
District 13. (4/27/2023)
District 14. (4/27/2023)
District 15. (4/28/2023)
District 16. (4/28/2023)
District 17. (4/29/2023)
District 18. (4/29/2023)
District 19. (4/30/2023)
District 20. (5/1/2023)
District 21. (5/2/2023)
District 22. (5/3/2023)
District 23. (5/4/2023)
District 24. (5/5/2023)
District 25. (5/6/2023)
District 26. (5/7/2023)
District 27. (5/8/2023)
District 29. (5/9/2023)
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