Michigan's 14th congressional district
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Michigan's 14th congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
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| Current Representative | Brenda Lawrence (D–Southfield) |
| Population (2010) | 705,974 |
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| Cook PVI | D+27 |
Michigan's 14th congressional district is a congressional district that stretches from eastern Detroit westward to Farmington Hills, then north to the suburbs of Auburn Hills.
From 2003 to 2013 was centered in Wayne County, Michigan and Oakland County, Michigan.
It is currently represented by Brenda Lawrence.
In the 1960s, the 14th congressional district consisted of Hamtramck, the northeast portion of Detroit, Harper Woods and the Grosse Pointes. The 1964 redistricting that created these boundaries had through Lucien Nedzi, who had represented the old 14th district in the same congressional district as fellow Democrat incumbent Harold Ryan. Nedzi was the more liberal of the two Democrats, and won the primary. In the 1972 redistricting East Detroit and Warren south of 10 Mile Road were added to the district while some of the district in Detroit was moved to other districts. Prior to the 1972 redistricting the majority of voters in the district were residents of Detroit. The 1972 redistricting changed the district from having a population based on the 1970 census that was 10% African American to one that was 3% African American, what with 70,000 or more residents added from East Detroit and Warren, with the latter city as a place where black families could in 1970 literally be counted with one's fingers. At the same time the percentage of people who were either immigrants or had at least one parent who was an immigrant fell from 46% to 37%. This more a reflection of the fact that the residents of Warren and East Detroit at the time were in many cases literally the children and grandchildren of the residents of north-east Detroit and Hamtramck. Those born in Poland or with at least one parent born there fell from 12% to 9% of the population, the same group for Canadians fell from 7% to 6% the Italian group held steady at 6% while the German group actually rose from 4% to 6%. Since all these figures are based on the 1970 census the changes reflect differences between the areas added and dropped, not any population movement.
Based on the 1970 census the district had the most people who identified having Belgian ancestry of any congressional district in the country, and one of the most heavily Polish as well. Based on the 1970 census it was possible to write that Hamtramck was "an almost entirely Polish-American city".
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