This site is closed to new comments and posts.

Notice: This site uses cookies to function.
If you are not comfortable with cookies then please don't browse this website.

Asian-Americans Push for Their Own District — Brooklynian

Asian-Americans Push for Their Own District

dailyheights
dailyheights
edited November -1 in Greenwood Heights and Sunset Park

This one's for you, armchair:

image

A crowded street in Sunset Park. The 2010 Census shows that this neighborhood is now home to the largest Chinese enclave.

Asian-American civic groups are pushing for redistricting in Brooklyn that would give growing Asian ethnic groups a district and representation of their own.

Claiming that the Asian vote is too diluted across many districts, the groups are hoping to splice together sections of Sunset Park, Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights in a new district that would have a majority population of Chinese immigrants and their descendants.

http://thebrooklynink.com/2012/01/13/40176-asian-americans-push-for-district-of-their-own/

Comments

  • armchair_warrior
    armchair_warrior

    not gonna happen, same issues in la, zero representation there too.

  • armchair_warrior
    armchair_warrior

    The Los Angeles City Council Redistricting Commission got an earful from the diverse reaches of Council District 1 during its Saturday, Jan. 7th redistricting meeting.

    Hundreds of residents attended the meeting held in Chinatown at St. Peter’s Italian Catholic Church.

    While the district currently only includes a small portion of Koreatown, residents of the community turned out in large numbers to urge the commission to “unite” all of Koreatown in one district.

    Koreatown is currently split between Council Districts 1, 4, 10 and 13. Several residents said the fact that not a single member on the city council is Asian, despite the city’s large Asian population, is evidence that the split has diluted their power and representation. The 2010 Census puts the Asian and Pacific Islander population at 15 percent.

    http://egpnews.com/?p=33722

  • bohuma
    bohuma

    Not going to happen unless said rep is a member of the Democratic Party. NY City and State have the worst examples of gerrymandering anywhere in the world. Apparently "Democrat" is only a name, it doesn't really mean anything.

  • boygabriel
    boygabriel

    NY City and State have the worst examples of gerrymandering anywhere in the world

    Please. This country has miserable gerrymandering everywhere, both parties.

    The U.S. literally has a higher reelection rate than communist-era Russia.

Sign In or Register to comment.

Howdy, Stranger!

It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!

Sign In

Categories