Jesus Salas, Agustin Negrete and Benjamin Menchaca v. Southwest Texas Junior College District

BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:

At issue in this Voting Rights Act § 2 case is whether the plaintiff Hispanic voters, who constitute a registered voter majority in the challenged at-large district, have met their burden of establishing that use of the at-large system, as opposed to single member districts, results in their “hav[ing] less opportunity than other members of the [district’s] electorate to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice”. 42 U.S.C. § 1973(b); Thornburg v. Gingles, 478 U.S. 30, 65, 106 S.Ct. 2752, 2774, 92 L.Ed.2d 25 (1986). Because we…