Engstrom on Race and Redistricting

Richard Engstrom (now at the Center for Civil Rights at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) has written "Race and Southern Politics: The Special Case of Congressional Districting," a chapter in Writing Southern Politics (Robert P. Steed and Laurence W. Moreland, eds., University Press of Kentucky 2006). The press has agreed I could post the entirety of Engstrom's chapter here. In the article, Engtrom aruges that, given the empirical evidence, the notion of majority-African American congressional districts have been a boon to the Republicans has been greatly exaggerated.

Highly recommended!

Posted by Rick Hasen at December 4, 2006 01:42 PM