Word: districters
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According to the 1990 Census figures, 601,643 people live in the eighth district...
Since the days of James Michael Curley and ward politics, the district has been its shape and boundaries radically change to the fit the molds of proportional representation...
Today the district makes up approximately one third of Boston and stretches north to five of Boston's bedroom communities--Watertown, Cambridge, Somerville, Chelsea and Belmont...
...district spans the spectrum from very poor people living in some of the poorest neighborhoods with very high degrees of infant morality and joblessness to some of the most affluent neighborhoods in the country, if not the world," says Brian O'Connor, a Kennedy staffer...
Nearly 40 percent are minorities. African Americans comprise 23.3 percent of the district, Americans of Hispanic descent 10.6 percent and Asian Americans almost 6 percent...