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A majority-minority district is an electoral district, such as a United States congressional district, in which the majority of the constituents in the district are racial or ethnic minorities (as opposed to Non-Hispanic whites in the U.S.). Race is collected through the decennial United States census.
Map of congressional districts represented by African Americans in the 117th Congress (2021-2023). From 1910 to 1940, the Great Migration of black people from the rural South to Northern cities such as New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland began to produce black-majority Congressional districts in the North. In the North, black ...
In the elections of 2016 and 2018, an increasing number of non-majority-minority districts have elected racial minority representatives. Overall, 32 of the 50 U.S. states, plus the U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia, have elected an African American to represent them in the U.S. House of Representatives, with Oregon being the most ...
The case was filed in Louisiana’s western federal district, which contains mostly judges appointed by Republicans NEW ORLEANS (AP) — […] The post Map with two 2 mostly Black congressional ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In a critical election year, the race for Louisiana’s new mostly Black congressional district is heating up as three candidates — including a longtime Democratic ...
Louisiana's Legislature approved a new congressional map Friday, Jan. 19, 2024 that will add a second majority Black district by radically changing the 6th Congressional District boundaries.
Maine's congressional districts since 2023. Until 1820, Maine was part of Massachusetts. After the 1810 census, Massachusetts was allocated 20 districts. Seven Massachusetts districts (then numbered 14 through 20) were credited to Maine soon after it became a state in 1820. See District of Maine
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signs into law a new congressional map that creates second majority Black district in Shreveport, Alexandria, Baton Rouge.