POLI 325D2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Earl Warren, Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner
10 Feb 2015
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House has acted as a traffic cop for all leg. traditionally, congress was overwhelmingly male and white and protestant (but some. Catholics and jews) during civil rights era, there were congressional districts in 5 cities (ny, la, chicago, Philly, and detroit) that were drawn to be primarily black and they elected black members. Lbj was senate majority leader, yet only elected first in 1948, became leader in 1954 (or 56) development of the hispanic caucus the now outnumber african americans in the population increasingly elected to the house. Elections to congress divided into districts for house, states for senate way in which congressional district boundaries are drawn gerrymandering done by the state leg. who draw the district boundaries. Wesberry v. sanders seen in texas 10 years ago, with the downfall of a very powerful house.
