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Hilshire Village The 2003 Texas Redistricting Of Congressional Districts Led By Republican Tom DeLay Was Called By The New York Times "an Extreme Case Of Partisan Gerrymandering" A Group Of Democratic Legislators The "Texas Eleven" Fled The State In A Quorum-busting Effort To Prevent The Legislature From Acting But Was Unsuccessful The State Had Already Redistricted Following The 2000 Census Despite These Efforts The Legislature Passed A Map Heavily In Favor Of Republicans Based On 2000 Data And Ignoring The Estimated Nearly One Million New Residents In The State Since That Date Career Attorneys And Analysts At The Department Of Justice Objected To The Plan As Diluting The Votes Of African American And Hispanic Voters But Political Appointees Overrode Them And Approved It. Legal Challenges To The Redistricting Reached The National Supreme Court In The Case League Of United Latin American Citizens V Perry (2006) But The Court Ruled In Favor Of The State (and Republicans)
. Jesse H Jones Hall for the Performing Arts On their return to Goliad Westover's group encountered Governor Viesca After being freed by sympathetic soldiers Viesca had immediately traveled to Texas to recreate the state government Dimmitt welcomed Viesca but refused to recognize his authority as governor This caused an uproar in the garrison as many supported the governor Dimmitt declared martial law and soon alienated most of the local residents. Over the next few months the area between Goliad and Refugio descended into civil war Goliad native Carlos de la Garza led a guerrilla warfare campaign against the Texian troops. According to historian Paul Lack the Texian "antiguerilla tactics did too little to crush out opposition but quite enough to sway the uncommitted toward the centralists.". .
. European occupations and agreements Locations in Houston are generally classified as either being inside or outside Interstate 610 known as the "610 Loop" or simply "The Loop" Inside the loop generally encompasses the central business district and has come to define an urban lifestyle and state of mind Elizabeth Long the author of the 2003 book Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life wrote that most of the upper middle classes in the 610 Loop live in the southwestern part of the inner city in the areas near Hermann Park the Houston Museum District Rice University and the Texas Medical Center while some portions of northern Houston and Eastern Houston have been gentrified and also have upper middle classes! .
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