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By JOHN GOOLRICK
The hottest summer in modem times is over and the attention of Virginians is turning into political realities rather than the WilderRobb feud with all its gossip page overtones.
There will be a November election, as always, in the state and for good measure even a special election on the regular election day to fill a congressional vacancy.
The winner of that contest, either Republican George Allen or Democrat Kay Slaugther (there are also two Independents running) will barely have time to catch their breath before the Virginia General Assembly, full of lame ducks, returns to Richmond to reapportion congressional districts.
Which brings us to the matter of redistricting and how boundaries of the 11 congressional districts—Virginia is being rewarded for population growth with an extra district— will be drawn.
Democrats will control the process, and until they reveal their plan everything is pure speculation. But given their hardball tactics in legislative redistricting earlier this year, it can be assumed everything will be done, in the words of one pundit, to “maximize Democratic opportunities.”
Given that likelihood, however, it is almost inevitable that the Democratic plan will include a black majority district from the TidewaterSouthside region despite the reluctance of some Democrats to create such a district.
That reluctance has nothing to do with objections of such Democrats to sending a black person to Congress, but everything to do with the fact
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