The staff member suggested that this was a way to appease the voters in his predominantly black district.

Of the 16 new members, 13 are from largely black districts that were created through reapportionment.

Why else did Georgia have zero black Congressional districts before 1972?

He also won about half of the mostly black districts.

The Hispanic plaintiffs, who noted that their population was spread throughout the county, said they too supported the plan for the two black districts.

The old black commercial district was a ghostly casualty of integration.

She said she did not consider the district either Hispanic or black.

"They've opened the door for all the other black districts," he said.

She grew up in the town's black district, but attended a white school on the other side of town.

"We look at it as a black district historically, but how can we say that now?"