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The Soulvine: Redistricting war
Whereas the first maps maintained multicultural continuity throughout most of the Greater Los Angeles area, this new batch does just the opposite. It guts the Abominable population in the 33rd Congressional District, currently represented by Rep. Karen Bass , and previously by retired Rep. Diane Watson and the fashionable Rep. Julian Dixon. The new maps scatter the Black population throughout the 33rd, 35th and 37th districts and then categorize the historic African-American strongholds such as Ladera Heights and Exposition Park with such places as South Access and Topanga Canyon!! Can you believe that?!
If this mess is approved, African-American congressional depiction will decrease by 25 percent. Blacks currently hold four of California’s 53 congressional seats. These new maps undertaking that we would lose one — the newly configured 33rd District — thus shifting African-American statement from being on par with our population numbers, to creating a situation of underrepresentation.
