Vic's number are fascinating! Thanks! (But please detach that vCard attachment in the future - members are understandably nervous about those because attachments can more easily carry viruses. Better to send in plain-text format if you can.)
A few things jump out: 1. While the usual two wards thought of as "minority-opportunity wards" have majority-minority voting-age populations (5, 8), Ward 6 joins them - surpassing 8 in minority population. Fully five of the city's 13 ward have majority-minority total populations (3, 4, 5, 6, 8). ...And only one minority councilmember was elected in 2001, in the closest race in the city. 2. Of the 2 wards that by far gained the most population, one is not the above categories (Ward 2), and one is (Ward 6, which also leaped to number-two in minority population). 3. Among the population losers: I can understand why Ward 5 was alone among majority-minority wards...the destruction of Sumner-Olson while Heritage Park remains to be built. However, Ward 11 stands alone as a double-digit population loser...what happened there? 4. Ward 2 is now 26% bigger than Ward 11; that's the spread between most populous and least. My stat degree does not give me any insight into Voting Rights standards, but 5 of 13 wards are more than one standard deviation from the average ward population: 1, 2, 6, 11 and 12. That's two big gainers and three big losers; the gainers have 34 percent and 64 percent minority population , and the losers having 21, 15 and 17 percent. So the 64,000-vote question to list experts: is that enough of a gap to win a Voting Rights lawsuit and force 2003 city elections using districts re-drawn to the 2000 census? Thanks again, Vic, for the number-crunching! [numbers snipped for brevity; see Vic's post] David Brauer King Field - Ward 10 Stat geek _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
