Slide 1
Maryland was redistricted in 2012 after the census. There is a case being heard by the supreme court on whether the redistricting was gerrymandering or not. However, district 4 was changed, therefore the population changed a bit with this redistricting adding more white and Hispanic population and decreasing the black population. However, since 2012 none of the populations have changed very much we see a bit of increase in the white and Hispanic population, but a bit of decrease in the immigrant and black population.
Slide 2
It seems as if most of the readings look to prove ways that media and interaction between immigrants and non-immigrants creates and anti-immigration sentiment in America. I use many of these sources to show examples of how this happens. Such as negative media coverage, the president’s policies, and people seeing immigrants as competition.
Slide 3
Because my area is a black domination population, I thought the most interesting thing is that the low-income blacks would feel more hatred to the immigrant population due to economic competition. I think this may be why the democratic representative has such neutral views on immigration policy. Other than that, I predicted that the news sources would create an anti-immigration policy as they often do and that because the population was not increasing the effect of these anti-immigration sentiments would maybe not be as strong.
Slide 4
My research proposal would be a survey sent out to people in the district to find out if low income blacks economic competition with the immigrant population would have an effect on how the black population felt on immigration policy, I would of course have to compare this with the high-income blacks from the district as well. And the other races.
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