Institute on Money in State Politics study of minority candidates in state legislatures in relation to campaign fund raising during the 2004 election cycle.

Though non-white populations across the country continue to grow, the minority presence in many state legislatures is not representative of the diversity of state populations.By exploring the experiences of minority candidates and the differences between those of white and non-white legislators, reasons for this gap may become apparent. In this study, the Institute on Money in State Politics examines fund raising by winning minority and non-minority state legislative candidates elected in the 2004 election cycle, as well as the experiences of both winning and losing Latino and Asian Pacific American candidates who ran on the Democratic and Republican tickets in the 2004 general election.

http://www.followthemoney.org/press/Reports/200603292.pdf