The Latino community saw their representation declined in the city of Dallas this weekend for the second time this year, where a local race left City Hall with only two Hispanic members.
It should not pass. Newly redistritado Dallas contains some four districts of most Latin, and the City Council traditionally has three Hispanic members. Agent real estate and activist Jesse Díaz lost the election in a district of most Latin scrape precisely to boost Hispanic representation on the City Council.
According to the Dallas Morning News, which endorsed Diaz, the candidate was not strong and the campaign. However, a more troubling trend against the greater Hispanic community also seems to have played a key role - many Latinos simply failed to show up.
"The results show the difficulty in achieving than those who are young, non-registered and disconnected from the political process to the polls", writes the Gromer Jeffers, Jr. in an analysis for the Dallas Morning News.
It is a problem that is reflected at the national level.
A record 23.7 million Latinos were eligible to vote last year, according to the Pew Hispanic Center - an increase of 22 per cent over the 2008 elections.
But voters continued to disappoint. Only 48 percent of Latino voters voted in 2012, according to figures released last month by the Census Bureau - far behind (66.2 percent) blacks and non-Hispanic whites (64.1%).
Texas becomes the problem of the low turnout of voters more acutely than most. Latinos represent 38 percent of the population of Texas, but usually not present themselves to the polls in large numbers.
How much impact would increased turnout in the conservative state reliably have? If Hispanics voted in the same proportion as Anglos, reliably conservative Texas would already be a State of the field of battle, according to an analysis by the Houston Chronicle.
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