INTERACTIVE MAP

2010 census counts by California’s congressional districts

California’s 53 congressional districts will be redrawn this year to form new districts with populations as close as possible to the target 702,905. Regions with districts below the target, such as in the Bay Area and urban Los Angeles and Orange counties, will lose districts while the inland areas will gain districts.

The map shows how many residents the current district is above or below that target. Click on the districts below for additional details about demographics. Read the story: Census may shift political power in California

Difference from target population of 702,905

-95,000 to -50,000 -50,000 to 0 0 to +50,000 +50,000 to +100,000 +100,000 to +215,000

MORE CENSUS MAPS: California’s state Assembly districts | California’s state Senate districts

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Megan Garvey, Thomas Suh Lauder, Maloy Moore, Sandra Poindexter, Doug Smith, Ben Welsh / Los Angeles Times

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tugboagking at 1:56 PM June 10, 2011

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This new map will hurt Republicans because it will stretch Democratic districts in the west towards the east. This will allow the Democrats to use the base of support in the western part of their district to then conquer the more conservative part of their district in the east. Republicans will also have to deal with the fact that many of their new districts will have higher concentrations of Latinos, forcing some Republicans to pull back on the argument of deportation or criminalization of illegal immigrants; mainly, for the reason that Latinos, who are citizens, see that argument as anti-Latino not anti-illegal immigrant. That’s my two-cents!!!

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