WILLIAMS: New racial order: Hispanics can dare to change political game
By Juan Williams - 03/07/11 07:16 AM ET
There’s a cynical national game of racial politics under way in the congressional redistricting process.
Reapportionment is always political, with Democrats and Republicans trying to redraw the lines of representation to their own advantage. But the startling rise in Hispanic population revealed in the 2010 census is creating an alarming new structure in which minorities get less, not more, voice in Congress.
In Congress, Latino politics over the last decade has been defined by limited roles. A small number of Hispanic Republicans, now eight, line up with the GOP only because of mutual hatred of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. The clear majority of Hispanics in Congress are the 17 Democrats who form the reliably liberal Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
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