Frank Sharry cheers race-based power; white-majority districts are "bleached districts"

Frank Sharry of America's Voice offers "Latinos Poised to Shake Up 2010 Census, Politicians Beware" at the Huffington Post [1] in which he discusses a study showing how massive immigration by Latinos will affect congressional apportionment; more on that here. The piece is basically just a celebration of race-based "raw political power", and later on he quotes from a Washington Post blog post written by Ed OKeefe in which Sharry - someone who's apparently Irish-Italian [2] - says the following:

"This is going to set up a very interesting dynamic, because right now, the kind of bleached districts where candidates can get away with demonizing Latino immigrants -- because they're more worried about a primary challenge than a general election loss -- may end in the next decade."

[1] huffingtonpost.com/frank-sharry/
latinos-poised-to-shake-u_b_362652.html

[2] northamericaninstitute.org/files/symposia/sharrybio.pdf

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 14:55 · Importance: 4