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crease pressure by black Democrats for the creation of a majority black district in the Norfolk-Tide water area.
After all, the argument will go, if the state’s chief executive is black, then why shouldn’t at least one of its 11 members of Congress be black, to reflect, in part, the 17 percent of Virginia’s population that is black.
For state Democratic legislators accustomed to getting nearly all the black vote when up for election, that kind of argument may be hard to resist.
But outside the province of black state legislators and the black community, there is little sentiment among Democrats for a black majority district, not because white Democrats would have any problem with the election of a black Virginian to the House of Representatives, but because of purely pragmatic reasons.
First, it would appear possible to create a viable black majority district only in the Norfolk-Tidewater area. If that were done, it would take away much of the black vote
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