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>> well, it depends on what you think a real cowboy is. >> but like a lot of texas towns, pasadena has changed radically from the days when john travolta walked the streets in a 10-gallon hat. >> pasadena no longer a small town, but a not-so-small city. >> the change has come in the last ten years, thanks to explosive growth in the hispanic population, which has risen in a decade from 48% to 62%, making white people a minority in the new pasadena. luckily for them, they are still a majority of the vote population. while the hispanic population accounts for a majority of the pasadena residence,...

Travolta walked the streets in a ten gallon hat. >> a not so small city. >> the changes come in the last ten years thanks to growth in the hispanic population, which has risen to 68%, making white people a minority in the new pasadena. luckily for them, they are still a majority of the voting population. while the hispanic population accounts for a majority of pasadena residents, hispanics make up only 32% of the city's voters, but the people who are running pasadena see the writing on the wall. they know there are only a few voter registration drives and maybe a bill away from being relegated...

And for the first time in the city's history, there are now two hispanics on the counsel. one is cody wheeler. >> we kind of came in there, looking to bring change, reform, to really engage in the community and we've called the mayor out on a lot of things we thought weren't very honest. >> in august, he started pushing a plan to shrink the number of districts and replace those two with at large seats to be voted on by everyone in pasadena, and by everyone, we mean the town's white voting majority. >> he decided to make a full power grab and he didn't care who you'd have to step over to get it...

Holder and isbel made his move. >> he said we're going to redirt the city. >> the justice department can no longer tell us what to do. >> so, this summer, isbill arguing some don't care about city wide issues, moved to put his own plan on the ballot. >> the mayor's quite aware of what this does, but he just seems to not care. >> on tuesday, the folks of pasadena went to vote on proposition one and the majority won by a margin of 87 votes. now that section five is dead, there are thousands of potential pasadenas all across the south. we should note that patricia gonzalez who we spoke to in that...

Things like that that we don't necessarily see from the national level. >> that's part of what we lost here when we lost section five. the ability to know about this stuff. everybody's going to know about statewide redistricting, statewide law changes. places like pasadena, texas, clara, alabama, shelby county, they're going to be doing things to manipulate late the system, define who the electorate is, that has a significant minority impact and we're just not going to know about it because we don't have section five. >> they range from alabama, alaska, georgia, mississippi, south carolina, te...