A significant portion of contributions to Massachusetts state legislators
between 1999 and 2002 are geographically concentrated and, overall, come from predominately White neighborhoods. In fact, out of the 2,157 total precincts in the state, the most generous 1% (22 precincts) gave nearly 14% of contributions ($3,169,872) to state legislators. Nearly 95% of the money raised by state legislators came from predominately White precincts (those with minority voting age populations less than 50%).