William T Goodall wrote:
>
> On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 04:13 am, Dan Minette wrote:
> > From: "William T Goodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >> http://society.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4605024,00.html
> >>
> >> " Two boroughs of Britain have more black and Asian people than white
> >> people for the first time ever, according to figures from the 2001
> >> census published today.
> >
> > There is a world of difference between two bouroughs and two states.
> <snip>
> > There is a lot of difference between the impact of these two numbers.
>
> The two boroughs under discussion both send 3 MPs to Parliament. So the
> comparable bit of the impact is that 6 MPs are being elected from
> boroughs that have a white minority population.
How many MPs are there total?
Dan mentioned Texas and California. In total, those two states send 85
out of 435 Representatives to the U.S. House of Representatives. I'm
not sure how many of those districts have a white minority, though, but
the %age of the population being white in both those states is shrinking
steadily. (Does anyone have demographic data on the congressional
districts?)
Julia
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