A level US Politics - 3C ((4) Racial and Ethnic Politics) Mind Map on (6) Racial and ethnic represented in Govt, created by Marcus Danvers on 03/02/2015.
Prohibits any state or local government imposing ‘voting qualification or
prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure ... in a manner which
results in a denial or abridgement of the right to vote on account of race or
language minority status’ Read Bennett 182 to explain what majority-minority
districts are and why they were brought into effect after the Voting Rights Act (1965)
"Majority-minority
districts"
Electoral districts in which a majority of residents
are from a specific racial minority group
With the adoption of this strategies
- increase in minority groups elected
Hispanic members - 9 in 1992,
27 in 2009 (2 Hispanic senators)
Senate First's
Obama 3rd black person to be elected to Senate
Hawaii has elected 5 Asian-Americans -
Mazie Hirono elected 2012
Sam Hayakawa 1st to be elected on the mainland
3 Hispanic senators
New Mexico elected 3 Hispanics
Most recent Native American Senator, Ben Nighthorse
Campbell of Colorado served 2 terms one half as Dem then Rep