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Majority-Minority Voting Districts and their role in politics: by Grant Hayden
Majority-minority districts give rise to a dynamic that undercuts the very goal they are designed to achieve. while they imporve the ability of minority voters to elect a candidate of their choice in a particulare district, they also cost their preferred political party _____________ |
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| Other valuable seats in the legislature. |
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| What are majority-minority districts? |
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| These are political districts in which members of a racial minority make up an effective voting majority. |
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| Majority-minority districts improve the ability of minority voters to _____ |
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| elect a candidate of thier choice in a particular district |
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| Creating majority-minority districts favors _______ although most minorities don't. |
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Majority-minority districts give rise to a dynamic that undercuts the very goal they are designed to achieve. While they improve the ability of minority voters to elect a candidate of their choice in a partiuclar district, they also cost thier preferred political party other valualbe seats in the legislature.
This, however, is less the faul of teh majority minority districts than of the second aspect of voting righs: the strict application of ________ |
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| One person, one vote standard |
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| Minority voters, especially blacks, vote for ______ in overwhelming numbers. |
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| The _____ ensures that each member of a legislative body represnets the same number of people. |
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| One person, One vote standard |
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| The one person, one vote standard ensures that each member of a legislative body represents the same number of people. Single-member political districs, then, must be drawn with ________________. |
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| an equal number of people in them. |
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| The Supreme Court stepped into the business of policing district size in the 1962 decision ____, and soon after that it applied the one person, one vote standard to both state legislative districts and congressional districts. |
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| Strict application of the standard makes redistricting a zero-sum game-since districts must have the same number of people in them, increasin the percentage of minority voters in one district inevitabley _____ in in others. |
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| In Grant Hayden's majority-Minority voting districts and their role in politics, what does he think that we can do about the disadvange or drawbacks of majority-minority districts? |
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| He says to relax the one person, one vote standard. To allow smaller populations of majority minority districts than the surrounding districts which would keep the risk of diluting the minority representaion. |
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| In Grant Haydens, majority-Minority voting districts and their role in politics, what does he say is the problem with majority-minority districts? |
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| The gheory goes like this. When creating a mjority-minority political district, the additional minority voters must come from somewhere. That somewhere is adjoining districts, which are drained of their minority voters. Those voters, though, are not merely minority voters-they are also reliably Democratic voters, And this makes it more liely that the REpublican candidates will prevail in those adjoining districts. |
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| According to Grant Hayden, some may fear that relaxing application fo the standard would lead to _____ in what should be a political process. |
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| excessive judicial intervention |
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| According to Grant Hayden, given the relatively slim margins enjoyed by Republians in Congress and many state legislatures, it remins us that some of those Republican victories may be a reslut of ______, not any genuine change in the country's political views. |
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| Majority-minority districting |
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