And Then There Were None
No white Texas Democrats in Congress, that is. Unless the U.S. Justice Department or a federal court finds violations of the Voting Rights Act, the new map for Texas is a twofer for Tom DeLay, of Sugar Land, the majority leader of the U.S. House, who conceived and executed the brazen mid-census redistricting coup. It ensures continued Republican control of Congress by turning seven districts represented by white Democrats into Republican bastions and the remaining three into minority Democrat bailiwicks. The aim is to polarize Texas politics along racial lines, which is to the GOP's benefit—at least for now.
