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I may be proved wrong, as is often the case, but I don’t think even the impetutous governor will try to totally rewrite the plan that creates a black majority district, creates a new Northern Virginia district with an open seat, protects incumbent Reps. James Moran and Norman Sisisky and still meets one-man, one vote requirements, although some of the lines drawn are weirdly shaped.
Gov. Wilder is most likely to boost the percentage of blacks within the black district a bit and consolidate much of the Richmond area into the 1st or 7th districts, while swapping some other localities between those two districts. He will probably also let stand the placement of two incumbent Republican members of Congress in one district, though that, too, could be changed with the stroke of a pen.
You can be sure that when the General Assembly acts in December to send the final version to the U.S. Department of Justice for its approval the plan will still be highly partisan in nature. That should come as no surprise since, as state Sen. Joseph Gartlan of Fairfax observed, redistricting has always been a partisan process and always will be so
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