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How Black Voters are Transforming Suburban Politics
Demography isn’t often destiny. Even when gerrymandering is thought of “fair,” there are a lot of problems that appear with courting these new populations. Just take Texas. It has the biggest range of Black citizens in the state, and the expansion of the suburban Black populace there has been specially pronounced. In the Houston space, Harris County observed an enhance of about 185,000 Black persons in the suburbs from 2000-2020. This led to a obvious change in how Black citizens have been unfold during the county: 3-quarters of the county’s Black populace employed to reside in the city aspect of Harris County — Houston. In 2020, urbanites accounted for significantly…