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The redistricting card helped Democrats in 1982 and thereafter in congressional elections considerably more than it will next year or thereafter. The reason is that by law they had to create a major black district—called by some “The Bobby Scott District” after a black state senator from Newport News whose name appears to be written all over it.
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