[EL] Baltimore County Tries a New Map

[David Lublin]

In the wake of a federal court granting an injunction against the new map
for Baltimore County Council districts due to likely Voting Rights Act
violations, Baltimore County has submitted a new map that still contains
only one majority Black district. However, a second district has been
altered to increase its Black population from 29.6% to 41.2%. Whites no
longer form a majority but still are a plurality of 45.8%. It's unclear if
the new map complies with the VRA and Baltimore County has thus far refused
to release to the plaintiffs the information needed to assess it.

See more information on the Seventh State, my occasional blog on Maryland
politics:

http://www.theseventhstate.com/?p=15476



-- 
David Lublin
Professor and Chair
Department of Government
School of Public Affairs
American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington, D.C. 20016
http://www.american.edu/dlublin/index.html
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