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Lunar
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« on: January 24, 2011, 10:18:37 PM »
Quote from: Lief on January 24, 2011, 01:24:18 PM
Interesting that, in the race numbers, the percentage of black Congresspeople mirrors the national share fairly well (10% vs. 13%) but the Hispanic (national share of 15.4%) and Asian (national share of 4.5%) are so far off. Probably due to gerrymandering and more concentrated black populations.

As a side note, Republican map-drawers love heavily African-American districts.  Hell, Swing State Project even just had a competition for who could pack the highest % into a single Alabama district: http://swingstateproject.com/diary/8285/mini-redistricting-challenge-alabama
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Lunar
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« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2011, 10:43:54 PM »
« Edited: January 25, 2011, 10:45:43 PM by Loonar »

Wow, considering I was really into Rhode Island politics in 2010 [and reading multiple RI political blogs] and heard of Cicilline for a couple years before then, I can't believe I didn't know that already.  I can either conclude that I missed it 100% due to chance or he has done a reasonably good job at not publicizing that
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Lunar
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« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2011, 01:33:19 AM »
Nick Rahall and Charles Boustany are of Lebanese descent too
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