majority-minority

[muh-jawr-i-tee-mi-nawr-i-tee, muh-jor-i-tee-mi-nor-i-tee, mahy-]

adjective

1. relating to a population in which more than half represent social, ethnic, or racial minorities, and in which fewer members of the more socially, politically, or financially dominant group are represented.

   majority-minority public schools.

Word History and Origins

Origin of majority-minority¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

They will also take up the question of whether the intentional creation of majority-minority districts violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause and the Fifteenth Amendment’s prohibition against abridging a citizen’s right to vote based on race.

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The map included one majority-minority district, but the plaintiffs said Section 2 requires a second.

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The law’s text doesn’t mention majority-minority districts and stresses that it doesn’t establish a right to proportional representation.

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How should courts determine if a minority population is “politically cohesive”? In the Louisiana case, the district court ruled for the plaintiffs and ordered the Legislature to draw a second majority-minority district.

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Republicans then drew a 250-mile majority-minority district that snakes from the state’s northwest to Baton Rouge.

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