A key element in the Jackson effort will be turnout in black and Hispanic areas.

Projects in heavily Hispanic areas were hard to fund, he said, but that has changed.

Crack dealers are lured into the trade by quick economic gains in the city's most grim black and Hispanic areas.

As has occurred elsewhere in the region, foreclosure has hit black and Hispanic areas hardest.

My parents own a small variety shop in a predominantly Hispanic and black area in Brooklyn.

The Democratic Party is about to launch a comprehensive radio campaign that will be concentrated in black and Hispanic areas.

Even in Miami, one of the country's most Hispanic areas, parents say it is hard to get their children to learn Spanish.

Therefore, within states, Democrats will try to use sampling to give black and Hispanic areas more representation at Republican expense.

More than 30 states have passed such laws since the 1980's, thus turning whole swaths of largely black and Hispanic urban areas into extra-penalty zones.

He said it would also concentrate new housing in poor black and Hispanic areas.