Maryland District 4 Demographics and Political Landscape

Rep. Anthony Brown (Dem) - MD s 4th District -32% White, 54% Black, 15.6% Hispanic, 3.3% Asian -Median household income: $71,135 -Anne Arundel County and Prince George s County -Due to aggressive gerrymandering, the new districts represent different communities in the same district By David Harding

Demographics Demographics PP Change (2012- 2017) Race 2007 2012 2017 White Non- Hispanic 23.6% 26.7% 26.3% +.3 Black 55.8% 52.8% 51.4% -1.4 Asian 7.4% 3.1% 3.2% +.1 Other 7.1% 9.6% 12.5% +2.9 Latino/Hispanic Median Household Income: $71,886 Party: Democratic Due to Gerrymandering the white population makes up a large percent of one part of the district and the Black/Hispanic population largely makes up another portion of the district. Latino/Hispanic 11.6% 15.7% 16.6% +.9 Immigrants All 21.5% 18.5% 18.3% -.2 Undocumented 12.1% 11.4% 10.2% -1.2 The redistricting in 2010 decreased the black population and increased the Hispanic population. Other that that there is little significant change.

Previous Research Previous Research Media Coverage of Immigration News coverage emphasizes the negative impacts on immigration, therefore making Hispanic immigrants out to be a threat (Abrajano &Hajnal 2015) Due to prominent news sources, Trumps anti-immigration sentiment, and Latino growth, people have a more anti immigrant sentiment themselves. (Newman et al. 2018) Public opinion on Immigration Economic competition between low income blacks and Hispanics is very real (McDermott 2013) Prominent news sources often depict illegal immigrants, specifically those who are undocumented as criminals or bad human beings, therefore giving the public a negative stance on illegal immigrants (Farris 2018) Immigrant experiences With sudden increases in an immigration population in a certain area, people become more hostile towards that immigration population. (Hopkins 2010) Whites do not take to demographic change well, therefore high immigration populations lead to support for the republican party and restrictionist policies. (Abrajano & Hajnal 2015)

Predictions for Maryland District 4 Predictions for Maryland District 4 Media Coverage of Immigration Due to the news sources and many politicians anti-immigration sentiments, people will likely watch the news and develop more of an anti immigration sentiment than they would have had even though this is a blue area Public opinion on immigration Because there is many low income blacks in this areas, there will likely be an economic competition between the two groups which will create more of a bad attitude towards immigration. Immigrant Experiences Because there has not been an increase in the amount of immigratns in this district, there will not be as strong of an anti-immigration sentiment in this district as there would be in others.

Research Plan Research Plan Analysis of Public Opinion Data in MD District 4 Would send out a survey to residents of District 4 in MD Questions on the survey Race? Income? Would you describe your feelings towards immigration policy, specifically policy regarding Hispanic immigrants as restrictionist, somewhat restrictionist, neutral, somewhat supportive, or supportive? Then I would look and see if race and/or income had an effect on how people felt towards Immigration. Seeing if competition between low income blacks and Hispanics had any effect of black s stance on immigration policy/immigrants