Gene Green gets the question at many of the town hall meetings he holds in his overwhelmingly Latino congressional district. Home to 2.3 million people, around 44 percent of whom are Latino, Houston is America's largest Hispanic city without a Hispanic member of the U.S. House. He has never lost a district drawn specifically to empower Hispanic voters and today is nearly 80 percent Latino. Republican Rep. David Valadao, of Portuguese descent, represents a Hispanic district in California's Central Valley. Top Hispanic leaders endorsed Green, as did BOLD PAC, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus' financial arm, which had never before supported a non-Hispanic over a Hispanic elected official.

Source: ABC News September 28, 2017 14:55 UTC