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| Black Voters Are Transforming the Suburbs ‐ And American Politics |
| 2023-01-24 |
| [Politico] HOUSTON — Back in 2017, Jon Rosenthal, a mechanical engineer who’d been spurred into politics, like many Democrats, by Donald Trump’s election, was having drinks with a group of local party activists when one of them suggested that he run for office: Why not challenge the Republican who’d been holding onto his state House seat for more than 20 years? Rosenthal was intrigued. And as he began considering his prospects, poring over demographic data on a laptop in his suburban Houston home, he saw an opening. People of color were exploding as a proportion of the population in the 135th state House district — Latinos, but also Black people, the Democratic Party’s most reliable voting bloc. Given the district’s rapidly increasing diversity, it made no sense to Rosenthal, who is white, that his Republican representative, Gary Elkins, who is also white, was still in power. And it seemed possible to him that a Democrat — even one who had never held elected office — could flip that seat. With the help of Odus Evbagharu, a political strategist Rosenthal had befriended, Rosenthal began campaigning door to door, where his biggest challenge was convincing people that the district had changed enough that a Democrat could win. "There’s a perception of the suburbs that, ’Oh, it’s all these white, affluent people," said Evbagharu, who is Black. "So, convincing people that this race was winnable was tough." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 Chanson à la wop pour soprano: "Who killa da neighborhood? HANO! Who come from Chicago, New York or Carthago Or up in da District, huh? HANO!" "Unhand dat dere innocent piano!" |
| Posted by: Professor Henbane9574 2023-01-24 16:03 |
| #9 So this is the positive spin on White Flight? |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2023-01-24 15:51 |
| #8 Yep there is a transformation underway and HUD is the core of this effort. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2023-01-24 12:50 |
| #7 From the article: In Rosenthal’s district as it’s currently drawn, the Black population — a segment of the electorate that went overwhelmingly for Democrats in last month’s midterms — jumped to more than 21 percent, up from just 9 percent in 2000, the largest growth in suburban Black population of any U.S. county. But his district isn’t the only one experiencing these demographic shifts. Questions: 1. Weren’t the districts redrawn recently? 2. Looking at the Houston befoe-and-after population distribution maps at the link, the Representative Rosenthal’s district looks awfully gerrymandered. Not quite the classic salamander with a tummy ache, but definitely wasp waisted. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-01-24 12:09 |
| #6 Short of gummint mandated fentanyl intake, there will always be people who don't get with the program. Well, there's always the water supply... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-01-24 10:57 |
| #5 His chance of election might be even better if he ran as a Republican. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2023-01-24 10:55 |
| #4 Fentanyl has been in the hinterlands since 2016...the osmotic transfer of evil into our lands is complete. This destabilization will soon manifest itself in scenes of Democratic Ozymandias... The inner cities rot and the once independent folks of the hinterland are brought low by a new generation trained to dependency by a complicit federal government who attempt to dull their shame with laced illicit narcotics...and even out here we are left with... "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.” |
| Posted by: Tennessee 2023-01-24 08:46 |
| #3 Fentanyl addiction is speeding the osmotic transfer of evil into the hinterlands. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-01-24 06:55 |
| #2 ...aaaand they start turning the nice suburbs into the inner city war zones that they fled from in the first place. |
| Posted by: Fat Bob Thrart2867 2023-01-24 06:33 |
| #1 You mean crime ridden "inner cities" are crime ridden for a political purpose ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-01-24 05:07 |