With Virginia's black population at 20 percent and Rep. Bobby Scott still the state's only black congressman, there is a push on in the Old Dominion to increase black political clout.
The rub, though, is how to do it.
The General Assembly returned to Richmond Thursday to redraw the state's 11 congressional districts as part of the once-a-decade redistricting process. But with the Republican-controlled House and Democratic-run Senate at loggerheads over the question of black representation, lawmakers turned over the task of completing the new map to a small group of negotiators.
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"What are these black voters going to protect him from?" said David Bositis, of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. "For that matter, just for ... democracy, you want a district where a candidate is unopposed?"
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