In a generally interesting article pointing out that Obama’s popularity has declined among all groups except nonwhites, Ron Brownstein writes:
[Obama’s] familiar strength is his standing among racial minorities. In the 2008 race, Obama won four-fifths of nonwhite voters. Nearly three-fourths of nonwhites still approve of his performance, the latest Gallup weekly polling average shows. That will boost Democrats next year in the growing number of House districts with large minority populations. And those very diverse districts could help Democrats limit any midterm losses….
Someone should point out to Brownstein that “districts with large minority populations” are not necessarily “diverse.” For example, of the nine Congressional districts in the 111th Congress with a black population of 60% or higher (I’m counting Michigan 14, represented by John Conyers, which is 59.58% black), seven of them are less than 10% Hispanic, and 4 are less than 5%.
