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jority district because it would take away larger numbers of their voters and make them more vulnerable to Republicans challenges. But a black majority district would strengthen Republican Rep1> Herb Bateman in the First District who barely survived this year.
On the first go around, Democrats will seek to make the First even more friendly to a Democratic challenger in 1992.
Because Seventh District Rep. D. French Slaughter Jr. handily beat his well-financed Democratic opponent this year, Democrats may choose to make the Seventh, the state’s most Republican district, a Republican dumping ground
Fifth District Democratic Rep.
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