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The Threat To Representation Map


Next calendar week the Supreme Court volition take away heed the representative of Evenwel v. Abbott. The representative is most a challenge to the Texas Legislature’s conception for terra firma Senate districts. The number of the representative could alter Districts across the whole of the United States, past times ruling that Districts tin alone count eligible voters rather than the whole population (excluding non-voters, such every bit children as well as non-citizens).

If the Court rules for the plaintiff, virtually all districting plans inward the U.S.A. would take away to last redrawn, as well as children as well as non-citizens would no longer count every bit constituents to represent. Social Explorer has created an interactive map which shows yous how many people inward each Congressional District, State Senate District as well as State House District would non last represented if the plaintiff wins.

The map provides a choropleth stance of each District inward the United States, which each District colored based on the per centum of the population who would non last represented if Evenwel wins. If yous click on a district on The Threat to Representation for Children as well as Non-Citizens map yous tin stance the per centum of people who would non last represented as well as the per centum of children as well as non-citizens inward the District.