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Facing the South: Two Districts, Four Campaigns in the Two-Headed 25th District [Doggett vs. Hinojosa]
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| Contributor | Texas Democrat 06 |
| Last Edited | Texas Democrat 06 Feb 21, 2004 11:34pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Austin Chronicle |
| News Date | Saturday, February 21, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | this was the Austin Chronicle cover story for the week of February 13, 2004:
"If you want to get from one end of the 25th Congressional District to the other without actually leaving the district, you have to walk. Not the entire 330 miles – but right in the middle, across the Live Oak/Duval county line. No road (at least none I could find, on the ground or on a map) crosses this line through the gas fields and ranches and prickly pear, where the urban needs of most of the district's voters, crowded at its very ends, seem very far away. (This point is much closer to both Corpus Christi and Laredo – and to six other congressional districts – than it is to either Austin or McAllen.)
Across the Live Oak/Duval line, CD 25 lacks more than just asphalt to connect it. The new Texas congressional map is filled with bizarre and frightening shapes, but only CD 25 has two heads. The northern half – from Travis south to Live Oak – is about 45% Hispanic and is dominated by the Austin metro area. The southern half – from Duval south to Hidalgo – is more than 90% Hispanic and is dominated by the Rio Grande Valley, from McAllen west to Falcon Reservoir. And so, there are not really two campaigns to be the Democratic nominee – and heavily favored in November – for the new CD 25.
There are four. "
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