Of the 60 Black lawmakers elected to Congress this year, 30 now represent states or districts with a plurality of white voters, according to an Axios analysis.
elected to Congress this year, 30 now represent states or districts with a plurality of white voters, according to an Axios analysis.It marks a dramatic shift from the recent past, when most Black lawmakers hailed from majority-minority districts specifically drawn to elect them. In 2014,The November election results showed that a historic barrier to Black representation in Congress — namely white voters refusing to support African-American candidates — is rapidly declining.
Republican lawmakers championed the fact that Black lawmakers from each party — Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Byron Donalds — were being considered for House speaker. Sen. Raphael Warnock , the first Black senator to represent Georgia, focused on his bipartisan outreach during his heated re-election campaign against Republican Herschel Walker in November.
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