SoMdNews.com: Congressional redistricting ditches continuity, compactness

This map’s three majority-minority districts contain African-American populations of 52 percent, 56 percent and 57 percent. The total minority population of District 4 represents 74 percent, of District 5 it is 68 percent and in District 7 it is 64 percent.

Ÿ The 4th District is a Beltway district that hugs the Montgomery and Prince George’s county lines. It also has the state’s largest concentration of Hispanics, totaling 21.8 percent of the district’s population.

Ÿ The 5th District is a suburban Washington, D.C., and Interstate 95 district. It contains all of Charles County, the majority of area within Prince George’s County, the I-95 portion of Howard County and the precincts bordering I-95 within Baltimore County.