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Urban problems abound.
But so do solutions because both cities are also home to a blossoming sense of genuine political power. At the conference's plenary session, the first speaker was a demographer. So the conference focused on ways to translate people into political clout. This time, the redistricting process mandated by the census figures would be used to dramatically increase Latino representation in legislatures throughout the United States. He suggested that Latinos find out who was going to draw the voting lines and then influence them with public and private pressures.