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ON PETITION FOR REHEARING EN BANC Before Richman, Chief Judge, and Jones, Smith, Barksdale, Stewart, Elrod, Southwick, Haynes, Graves, Higginson, Willett, Ho, Duncan, Engelhardt, Oldham, Wilson, Douglas, and Ramirez, Circuit Judges. Edith H. Jones, Circuit Judge, joined by Richman*, Chief Judge, and Smith, Barksdale, Elrod, Southwick, Willett, Ho†, Duncan, Engelhardt, Oldham, and Wilson, Circuit Judges: _____________________ * Judge Richman joins all but Section II.D. † Judge Ho joins Sections I, II.C., and III only. The issue in this en banc case is whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act authorizes coalitions of racial and language minorities to claim vote dilution in legislative redistricting. In an increasingly multiracial and multi-language polity, the importance of this issue is obvious. We overrule this court’s decision in Campos v. City of Baytown, 840 F.2d 1240, 1244 (5th Cir. 1988), and its progeny, which allowed such claims to be maintained.