The new Congress convenes as a House divided, with Democrats and Republicans representing districts marked by towering contrasts along lines of race, education, and age, a Next America analysis shows. …
The challenge for House Democrats is their while their voter coalition has proved large enough to carry the popular vote in five of the past six presidential elections, it remains intensely concentrated, mostly in urban areas. That concentration provides a systematic advantage to Republicans in the struggle for the House–even before considering the GOP edge in control of redistricting after the 2010 Census. CONT.
Ronald Brownstein & Janie Boschma, National Journal