This article serves as an introduction to a symposium that was organized with the goal of ex
plicating, discussing, and evaluating the validity of the most important statistical and demo
graphic issues that have been raised in voting rights cases. The article outlines, discusses, and
evaluates the issues surrounding a recent voting rights case in Los Angeles, Garza v. County
of Los Angeles.
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Jacobs, Paul W. II, and Timothy G. O'Rourke .1986. Racial polarization in vote dilution cases under section 2 of the Voting Rights Act: The impact of Thornburg v. Gingles. Journal of Law & Politics3:295-354.
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Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. 1990. Yolanda Garza et al. v. County of Los Angeles et al., 90 CDOS 8138ff.
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Thernstrom, Abigail M.1989. Whose votes count? Affirmative action and minority voting rights. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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Thornburg v. Gingles, 478 U.S. 30,106 S. Ct. 2752 (1986).
