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Colorado's new draft congressional map centers on Hispanic 'southern district'
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| Contributor | BrentinCO |
| Last Edited | BrentinCO Sep 04, 2021 11:57am |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Sep 04, 2021 11:00am |
| Description | Colorado's congressional redistricting commission released the first new draft map since receiving the official 2020 decennial census data.
The new draft congressional map incorporates the "southern district" concept, built around the idea of empowering rural Hispanic and Native American Coloradans, after several organizations criticized the preliminary draft map, released in June, because of how it handled minority communities.
The new configuration differs significantly from the preliminary draft map. Instead of dividing the state's expansive, but sparsely populated rural areas into one large eastern rural district and one large western rural district, the prioritized southern district means the rural population of the state is divided into three districts, each of which also have some urban areas to balance their populations. |
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