The first City Council maps have come out. Of course everyone has a complaint. New census data shows Los Angeles is now 48.5% Latino, 28.6% white, 11.3% Asian and 9.2% black. There are 15 seats and they are trying to have 5 Latino majority seats. That's reasonable. If you could get more than that without silly gerrymandering, you should. There are no guaranteed Asian seats. There are, however, once again 3 African-American influence seats. An African-American influence seats is one where Blacks aren't in the majority but they so dominate the CVAP, an African-American is sure to win election.
Asians are 11.3% and get Koreatown divided up. African Americans are 9.2% and get 20% of the seats. Now, that's power.
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