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...report, which is one of the first major analyses of the change in racial demographics based on the 2000 national census results, finds that this increased segregation comes even as Boston has become “majority-minority,” with minorities comprising more than 50 percent of the city’s population...
...Boston area’s black population, however, is experiencing the highest level of segregation. Seventy percent would have to move to be integrated. But McArdle noted that this percentage is an improvement from the 75 percent predicted by the 1990 census...
...lack of other rallying issues could help the Republicans. The Democrats "don't have a whole lot of running room this time," says California Representative Ellen Tauscher, the national vice chair of the Democratic Leadership Council. Congressional redistricting, which is mandated every decade in accordance with the new Census count, is still under way, but so far the redrawn lines appear to favor most House incumbents. No more than two dozen of the 435 House races may really be up for grabs, and many of them are in Republican-friendly areas in the South and Midwest. DeLay predicts the G.O.P...
...whole process is called redistricting. Every ten years, after the latest census figures come out, state governments redraw state and federal congressional districts to reflect the latest population changes. To most of us outside of government, it's a boring, confusing mess of endlessly twisting lines running through neighborhoods on a map. To politicians, it's a cage match to the death, complete with court hearings. The political and legal complexities of redistricting are vast, but most politicians have a simple goal - to protect their own seat and, if possible, try to guarantee their party a majority...
...governor's office and a majority in both houses of the legislature, first started redrawing political districts, they weren't thinking about the governor's race. They were thinking about keeping their own jobs and about the state congressional delegation. Pennsylvania lost two congressional seats in the 2000 census, going from 21 to 19. The current delegation has eleven Republicans and ten Democrats. Legislators' final calculations predicted voters in the redrawn districts would send fourteen Republicans and five Democrats to Washington in 2003. How did they arrive at these figures? Using standard redistricting tools: they redrew the districts to make...