" Texas GOP may be banking on low Hispanic turnout in new map " was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

Almost as soon as Gov. Greg Abbott signed Texas’ new congressional map into law, groups representing Latino voters sued him for discrimination.

Their allegations are not unusual. Texas’ political maps have been found to violate the Voting Rights Act in every decade since its passage in 1965. What’s different is that Republicans are countering the latest charges of racism by pointing out that the districts they intend to win are majority-Hispanic.

“Four of the five districts that we're going to create are predominantly Hispa

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