Some of you kids are old enough to remember those bumper stickers. They went a long way to communicating the post-Katrina aspirations of a certain segment of Uptown White voters without explicitly stating those aspirations. Of course Stacy was pretty explicit about it when she wanted to be.
Anyway, here we are after a decade or so, a public housing demolition, hundreds of Airbnbs, and several blown kisses later, and the vision is really starting to fall into place.
With qualifying for New Orleans’ municipal elections about a month away, politicos are eyeing the party, gender and ethnic make-up of the city’s voters overall and in the individual City Council districts.
A new analysis by seasoned demographer and consultant Greg Rigamer shows that there are currently 273,627 registered voters in Orleans Parish residing in 216,052 households. This includes 119,656 (43.7%) male voters and 153,681 (56.2%) female voters.
Of that total, 149,373 (54.6%) are Black; 99,821 (36.5%) are White; and 24,433 (8.9%) are registered as “other.” Democrats make up 64.2% (175,571) of the voters; “other party” 25.9% (70,748); and Republicans 10% (27,303).
Council District A has the highest percentage of White voters, and Council District E has the highest percentage of Black voters. For the first time in recent years, the percentage of White voters in Council District B exceeds the percentage of Black voters.
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