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Does Race Based Redistricting Matter For Policy?, Ebonya Washington
Does Race Based Redistricting Matter For Policy?, Ebonya Washington
University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series
During the 1990 congressional redistricting many states were mandated to create additional majority minority-resident districts in order to elect more minorities to Congress. Civil rights groups and Republicans cheered. The Party views Democratic districts stripped of Black voters as opportunities to repaint blue districts red. The academic literature agrees, attributing the Republican return to House control in 1994 to race based redistricting. However, this literature generally focuses on the district as the unit of analysis, a focus that is too narrow, as some districts gain Black residents while others lose them. I focus on states, the level at which redistricting …