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In defense of Us arrangsmint, the majority mode these points:
The now First will include all areas north of the James which have Tidewater interests.
In tackling the old oversized Second, the majority concluded "the most practical solution appeared to be the formation of a district with a city as the core, surrounded by satellite areas of like interest." They added: Their proposal "makes a big district from a population standpoint, but many people who live in Norfolk county work in one of these cities. Any other grouping would violate contiguity, compactness or mutuality of interest . . . The representative can visit any portion of the district quickly and easily."
The Seventh District, said the majority, is "fairly low in population." But, they added, "it has been the long-established policy of Virginia to maintain the Valley of Virginia as a separate district. The mountains which form the eastern boundary of the district constitute a major barrier to communication should a county to the east of the mountains be added to the present district . . . The present Seventh is compact and contiguous, and the addition of any other area in an attempt to meet a criteria of population alone will defeat the other objectives.”
The Eighth is left "sorely lacking in population” by subtraction of the new Tenth, the majority said. ‘TSven though low in population, the area is large,” they added. "Effective representation well nigh precludes the addition of more territory to the Eighth.”
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