The Daily News has a piece on how the Dominican American National Roundtable would radically change the 14th congressional district to make it possible to elect the first Dominican-American member of Congress. The story has the redistricting hopes of DANR which include changing current Bronx congressional districts also.
The 15th Congressional district drawn as a black minority district has changed, and is now more Hispanic than black, as the district lines were drawn. To correct that DANR proposes that the 15th CD extend through the Bronx into Mount Vernon to regain a black majority.
The 14th CD would then pick up the Manhattan Dominican and other Dominicans from the Bronx to create a new Dominican-American congressional district. Current 14th Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney's district would go from a 2/3 majority of white upper east side Manhattan voters to a district with less than 1/3 of a white vote, and 2/3 Hispanic.
You can read the whole story by Celeste Katz of the Daily News here.
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