{"id":11933,"date":"2018-11-19T13:32:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T18:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11933"},"modified":"2018-11-19T13:32:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T18:32:41","slug":"eight-white-majority-districts-elected-black-members-of-congress-thats-a-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11933","title":{"rendered":"Eight White Majority Districts Elected Black Members of Congress. That&#8217;s a Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read my piece in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/monkey-cage\/wp\/2018\/11\/19\/this-november-eight-mostly-white-districts-elected-black-members-of-congress-thats-a-breakthrough\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.1b306051019e\">Washington Post&#8217;s Monkey Cage blog:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"1\">This year, Americans appear to have elected a record 53 African Americans to the House.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"1\">Forty-four were reelected. Of those, four-fifths won reelection from majority-minority districts \u2014 defined here as districts where non-Hispanic whites form a minority of the voting-age population according to the 2010 Census. That\u2019s what we\u2019ve seen in the past: Historically, black representatives have been elected from majority-minority districts.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"2\">But here\u2019s the big news: Eight of the nine newly elected African Americans won in districts dominated by non-Hispanic whites.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"2\">Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/monkey-cage\/wp\/2018\/11\/19\/this-november-eight-mostly-white-districts-elected-black-members-of-congress-thats-a-breakthrough\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.1b306051019e\">full piece online over at the <em>Post<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read my piece in the Washington Post&#8217;s Monkey Cage blog: This year, Americans appear to have elected a record 53 African Americans to the House. Forty-four were reelected. Of those, four-fifths won reelection from majority-minority districts \u2014 defined here as districts where non-Hispanic whites form a minority of the voting-age population according to the 2010 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11933\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eight White Majority Districts Elected Black Members of Congress. That&#8217;s a Breakthrough<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1830,756],"tags":[2266,2075],"class_list":["post-11933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-elections","category-minority-representation","tag-african-american-officials","tag-monkey-cage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-36t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11934,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933\/revisions\/11934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}