Volma Overton, and Ernesto Calderon, Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellants v. City of Austin, and Black Citizens Task Force, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee

We are asked by black and Mexican-American plaintiffs-appellants to review whether the City of Austin’s at-large, majority place system for election of city council members violates Section 2 et seq. of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. § 1973 et seq. (1982) (as amended). The *531district court performed a “searching and practical evaluation of ‘past and present reality’,” S.Rep. No. 417, 97th Cong., 2d Sess., reprinted in 1982 U.S.Code Cong. & Admin.News 177, 208, both before Thornburg v. Gingles, 478 U.S. 80, 106 S.Ct. 2752, 92 L.Ed.2d 25 (1986), and, with additional evidence, after…