Carrie Meek v. Metropolitan Dade County

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• recognizing that even where a minority candidate has long enjoyed electoral success, the determination of whether the minority group has been able to elect its preferred candidate is an issue requiring a factual appraisal
• concluding that \the social reality is that Black and Hispanic voters are hostile toward each other in the electoral arena\ based on the district court's findings in its October 5, 1988 Order, as amended in its Order of November 6, 1988, granting summary judgment in favor of Dade County
• concluding that “the social reality is that Black and Hispanic voters are hostile toward each other in the electoral arena” based on the district court’s findings in its October 5, 1988 Order, as amended in its Order of November 6, 1988, granting summary judgment in favor of Dade County
• reaffirming, post circuit reorganization, Zimmer v. McKeithen , 485 F.2d 1297 , 1300 (5th Cir. 1973

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