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District #      Population                %White        %Hispanic      %Black      %Asian       %Other
26                 936,567                     69               13                   14               4                   0
3                   917,437                     66               15                   9                 10                 0
22                 900,213                     60               20                  10               10                  0
31                 897,753                     68               15                  12               4                    1
21                 864,129                     70               20                  6                 4                    0
10                 851,286                     67              18                   9                 5                    1
28                 839,997                     21              77                   1                 1                    0
8                   837,414                     81              9                     8                 2                    0
25                 833,838                    54               33                  10                3                    0
12                 832,783                    68               22                  6                  4                    0
4                   826,431                    80               8                    9                  2                    1
6                   823,749                    67               15                 13                 5                    0
15                 799,510                    18               79                  1                   1                   1
14                 784,564                    63               23                 10                 3                     1
24                 784,223                   65               17                  10                 8                    0
7                   781,547                  67                18                  6                   9                    0
23                 778,069                  33                62                  3                   2                    0
18                 773,903                  20               35                   41                 4                    0
29                 766,500                  22               66                   10                 2                    0
17                 758,597                  72               15                   10                 3                    0
9                   749,889                  17               32                   39                12                   1
20                 749,518                  24               66                   7                   3                    0
5                   744,024                  72               13                  12                  3                    0
2                   738,523                  66               12                  18                  4                    0
30                 736,127                  22               33                  42                 2                    1
16                 732,022                  17               77                  3                   2                     1
27                 718,651                  27               69                  2                   2                     0
32                 715,803                  50               36                  8                   6                     0
1                   709,473                  71              9                     19                 1                     0
11                 705,991                  65              29                   4                   2                     0
19                 667,826                  64              28                   6                   2                     0
13                 655,528                  74              17                   6                   3
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« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2011, 01:51:11 AM »

District #      Population                %White        %Hispanic      %Black      %Asian       %Other
26                 936,567                     69               13                   14               4                   0
3                   917,437                     66               15                   9                 10                 0
22                 900,213                     60               20                  10               10                  0
31                 897,753                     68               15                  12               4                    1
21                 864,129                     70               20                  6                 4                    0
10                 851,286                     67              18                   9                 5                    1
28                 839,997                     21              77                   1                 1                    0
8                   837,414                     81              9                     8                 2                    0
25                 833,838                    54               33                  10                3                    0
12                 832,783                    68               22                  6                  4                    0
4                   826,431                    80               8                    9                  2                    1
6                   823,749                    67               15                 13                 5                    0
15                 799,510                    18               79                  1                   1                   1
14                 784,564                    63               23                 10                 3                     1
24                 784,223                   65               17                  10                 8                    0
7                   781,547                  67                18                  6                   9                    0
23                 778,069                  33                62                  3                   2                    0
18                 773,903                  20               35                   41                 4                    0
29                 766,500                  22               66                   10                 2                    0
17                 758,597                  72               15                   10                 3                    0
9                   749,889                  17               32                   39                12                   1
20                 749,518                  24               66                   7                   3                    0
5                   744,024                  72               13                  12                  3                    0
2                   738,523                  66               12                  18                  4                    0
30                 736,127                  22               33                  42                 2                    1
16                 732,022                  17               77                  3                   2                     1
27                 718,651                  27               69                  2                   2                     0
32                 715,803                  50               36                  8                   6                     0
1                   709,473                  71              9                     19                 1                     0
11                 705,991                  65              29                   4                   2                     0
19                 667,826                  64              28                   6                   2                     0
13                 655,528                  74              17                   6                   3
Source?  2009 ACS shows 943K for CD 10.
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« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2011, 02:46:31 AM »

I used dave's redistricting app and just highlighted all the areas of each district.
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« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2011, 06:00:47 AM »

I used dave's redistricting app and just highlighted all the areas of each district.

Did you use voting districts or block groups on the app? The former doesn't have 2009 ACS estimates yet; only the latter does (for most states).
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« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2011, 06:37:20 AM »

He probably used voting districts; Texas is one of the handful of states with "special data" where you don't have to separately click "use new estimates" and which were more sophisticated than the uniform estimates elsewhere. (New York is another.) No idea how these estimates work and where they come from.
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« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2011, 05:37:59 PM »

Texas must be the only state in the country where Republican-held districts dominate the bottom of the population charts. I suppose Kansas had this situation as well in '06-'08 and for as long as Moore was in office.
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« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2011, 11:03:18 PM »

the reason why a blood red district like TX 13 has only gained like 3000 people in the past ten years is because its a very rural district and has a lot of old people living there. As a lot of old people die off and the kids graduating from high school move closer to the cities, the population stays constant.

In Texas, the district with the most population growth is also a republican district. Texas 26 isn't nearly as republican as TX 13, but is still has a R+13 PVI. What's different between a district a fast growing district like TX 26 and another fast growing district like TX 28, is that many of the people from TX 26 are already from Texas and are just moving there from somewhere else in the state. TX 28 has a lot of people moving in from outside of Texas.
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« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2011, 12:07:37 AM »

Texas must be the only state in the country where Republican-held districts dominate the bottom of the population charts. I suppose Kansas had this situation as well in '06-'08 and for as long as Moore was in office.
Republican-held districts are all 8 of the top quartile, and 5:3 of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th quartiles, and average 40,000 persons more than the Democratic-held districts.  If voting power were based on populations, Republicans would have a 23.33% : 8.67% advantage.  So the Democrat-rotten-borough factor is worth 1/3 a vote in Texas alone.


District  2009  Ang  Bla  Asi  Oth  His Par  Representative
TX-10  943,301  53%  11%   6%   2%  28%  R  McCaul
TX-26  907,036  62%  12%   3%   2%  21%  R  Burgess
TX-22  895,488  47%  13%  11%   2%  27%  R  Olson
TX-3   872,895  54%  10%  11%   3%  23%  R  Johnson, Sam
TX-31  857,673  61%  12%   3%   3%  20%  R  Carter
TX-21  837,900  61%   6%   3%   2%  28%  R  Smith
TX-12  820,289  60%   7%   2%   2%  29%  R  Granger
TX-4   818,462  73%  10%   2%   3%  12%  R  Hall
TX-28  817,105  18%   1%   1%   1%  80%  D  Cuellar
TX-25  810,390  51%   8%   2%   2%  38%  D  Doggett
TX-8   808,773  75%   8%   1%   2%  14%  R  Brady
TX-6   805,442  54%  16%   4%   2%  24%  R  Barton
TX-23  804,574  29%   3%   2%   1%  65%  R  Canseco
TX-24  791,663  50%  12%   9%   2%  27%  R  Marchant
TX-7   786,667  57%   9%   9%   2%  23%  R  Culberson
TX-15  768,767  17%   2%   1%   1%  80%  D  Hinojosa
TX-14  760,299  58%   9%   3%   2%  28%  R  Paul
TX-30  752,686  18%  37%   1%   2%  42%  D  Johnson, Eddie Bernice
TX-17  749,966  67%  10%   2%   2%  20%  R  Flores
TX-2   749,676  54%  20%   3%   2%  22%  R  Poe
TX-18  740,571  18%  35%   4%   1%  42%  D  Jackson Lee
TX-9   738,166  13%  35%  10%   1%  42%  D  Green, Al
TX-5   723,374  61%  13%   2%   2%  21%  R  Hensarling
TX-27  714,243  23%   2%   1%   1%  73%  R  Farenthold
TX-16  713,169  14%   3%   1%   1%  81%  D  Reyes
TX-1   710,414  66%  18%   1%   1%  14%  R  Gohmert
TX-20  700,692  20%   7%   1%   2%  70%  D  Gonzalez
TX-11  693,432  59%   4%   1%   1%  35%  R  Conaway
TX-19  679,701  58%   5%   1%   2%  33%  R  Neugebauer
TX-32  677,328  44%   7%   5%   1%  43%  R  Sessions
TX-29  675,095  14%   9%   1%   1%  75%  D  Green, Gene
TX-13  657,065  68%   6%   1%   3%  23%  R  Thornberry
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« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2011, 10:33:11 AM »

Republican-held districts are all 8 of the top quartile, and 5:3 of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th quartiles, and average 40,000 persons more than the Democratic-held districts.  If voting power were based on populations, Republicans would have a 23.33% : 8.67% advantage.  So the Democrat-rotten-borough factor is worth 1/3 a vote in Texas alone.

Fortunately for Republicans, the Democrat-rotten-borough factor is far outweighed by the effects of Republican districting, cracking of minority populations in the Metroplex, and FPTP dynamics in terms of determining the overall breakdown of the House delegation to be substantially overweighted for Republican wins than federal statewide election results would predict.

I was making a neutral observation about the last several House seats on the list, not starting a "rotten borough" argument, given how Texas is perhaps unique among states to have this outcome and because the fastest-growing districts are of course also Republican represented.
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« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2011, 05:25:49 PM »

I was making a neutral observation about the last several House seats on the list, not starting a "rotten borough" argument, given how Texas is perhaps unique among states to have this outcome and because the fastest-growing districts are of course also Republican represented.
Your observation was not accurate.

62.5% of the bottom quartile districts are Republican-held vs. 71.9% of all seats.  Moreover, this is the same share as for the 2nd and 3rd quartiles.

You asserted, "Texas must be the only state in the country where Republican-held districts dominate the bottom of the population charts."

It is simply not accurate to say that Republican-held seats dominate the bottom of the population charts in Texas, at least relative to their dominance in the mid-level districts.
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« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2011, 05:36:16 PM »

Brittain did not refer to quartiles anywhere, though - four out of the bottom five districts are Republican-held.
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« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2011, 08:52:46 PM »
« Edited: January 30, 2011, 09:20:58 PM by brittain33 »

Brittain did not refer to quartiles anywhere, though - four out of the bottom five districts are Republican-held.

Thank you. This is what I meant. It would have been weird to see more than one down there. I think jim may have been inferring a larger message from my statement but that was not what I was saying.
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« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2011, 08:53:32 PM »
« Edited: January 30, 2011, 09:21:33 PM by brittain33 »

...Iowa seems to be another example of a state with underpopulated Republican-represented rural districts.
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« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2011, 04:09:06 AM »
« Edited: January 31, 2011, 04:18:38 AM by jimrtex »

Brittain did not refer to quartiles anywhere, though - four out of the bottom five districts are Republican-held.
That's cherry picking the data.  Why not 6?

And given the overall Republican dominance you would have a 56% chance of 4 or 5 Republican districts among the bottom 5 if they were randomly arranged.  Flipping a coin and it coming up heads is not an anomaly.
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« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2011, 07:07:22 AM »

Whatever Jim.
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« Reply #15 on: January 31, 2011, 07:16:25 AM »

Brittain did not refer to quartiles anywhere, though - four out of the bottom five districts are Republican-held.
That's cherry picking the data.  Why not 6?
Because the bottom 5 are a heavily Republican list while the mid-low part of the list, from 16th through to 27th place, does display the "Democratic Rotten Borough" effect Brittain had expected. Roll Eyes 27th and 28th somewhat obscure it, but apart from them there's a pretty major natural break here, too.

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