claim: "austin is the largest city in the u.s. or texas with no geographic representation" on its city council.
author: austinites for geographic representation
evidence_1: when we inquired, a volunteer researcher redid his earlier look at whether austin  is the largest u.s. city that elects no city council members from geographic ...
evidence_2: austin is the capital of the u.s. state of texas and the seat of travis county, with  portions extending into hays and williamson counties. it is the 11th-most  populous city in the united states and the 4th-most populous city in texas. ...  austin is known as a "clean-air city" for its stringent no-smoking ordinances that  apply to all ...
evidence_3: oct 2, 2014 ... austin will undergo a major shift in how it elects its city council, which could ...  texas voters have not elected a democrat to a statewide office in 20 years;  austin has ... the fight for geographic representation brought together groups ...  united latin american citizens and the travis county republican party.
evidence_4: is austin the state's most segregated city? ... model of elective representation that  all but ensured its racial exclusivity would persist. ... was an african american  elected to the council, followed by the first latino in 1975. ... “i do feel that having  a diverse governing body with not just ethnic diversity but geographic diversity,  age ...
evidence_5: nov 23, 2012 ... this seemed like a nice, balanced representation of the city. ... austin had  adopted its at-large election system, in which there are no geographic districts or  wards, in 1953. as long as the city council was elected at large, campaigns had  to ... no more than one hispanic and one african american have ever ...