Census: GOP poised to shape political lines for South's growing Latino communities

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In 2008, two-thirds of Latinos in the U.S. voted for President Obama. That margin proved critical in states like Florida, where Latinos made up 14 percent of the voters, and 57 percent pulled the lever for the president-elect.

But barring an unlikely change, Republicans will soon be making the decisions about how growing Latino communities are politically represented in Florida and other key Southern states.

That's because the GOP controls many of the state legislatures in places where the Latino population is the largest, putting Republicans in the driver's seat for drawing new state and Congressional political lines in 2011, after this year's Census numbers are released.

Right now, the state legislatures in the three Southern states with the largest Latino population -- Texas, Florida and Georgia -- are controlled by Republicans, a reality that is unlikely to change in the GOP-favorable 2010 elections.


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