Black Districts Pose Ironic Threat to Liberals News Clipping

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, ,'Continucdfronfiagc27A ,: . . ; ment has vetoed p-rev-iogs pllns,

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-iifiere.member dis. .,It'uffiilil?,'#'J::1t f,iflffff:

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tslacle districts p@se threar to lf,here[s:

' The.legislators aren't 
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eon- ' iifu'a iJmmittie-exciiiiigC fe:,. , cgrn$ about tlre suit as tley-g1c tween Spautaine ana siite" nep.' about passing a rev.ie' 
Pv 11,.9:!: parks Htrms, 5-l1eckrenburg, a

1 j.uglice D-epartment under the ItS . iiUerat-Ganin! fi*111at er.' , Voting Rights Act" The depart: Helms:,.,Tf,e establishment of. these two districts (proposed by
Spaulding) in llleckledbuig County
rvould do more to disenfranchisc
the black vote and black influence
than anything you could d0.".

; Spaulding: 
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cannot dnder-
stand how you can say blacks

'would be disenfranchised ...when
, Mecklenburg County hasn't elect-

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ed a black to the }Iouse since any-
body can remember, and jn this
plan they would be assurcd of two
seats."' . Jqallnterview laier,'Rep. Dan-
iel T. BIue, D-Wake, a blaik, said
the problem was difficult. ' :

Blue votcd with Spaulcling Fri-. day on a general mo-tion to dreate' the districts in all the urban cbun-
ties. But he abstained on ilre vote
spccilically for a district in Wake.

Blue admits he is torn pn the
,-!L;e,ii,j:t i{ wfjet-lie{ e.t,'sr-ing'
:r.'r-/r ac; &.serS,iir'*e uc t:c
WaIe Couaty, whic! eiecteu him,

should be scrapped,.or whether'
they should be retained, rvith sin.
gle-member districts imposed in
eounties that haven't eleeted
blacks. ' i .,,,i ,.: i,.: :

"The question is whether it's
bctter for you to have.30 or 40
whites who depend on black votes
and who are more responsive to'the 

concerns of blacks, or on the
other hand to just have more
blncks clcctcd," Illuc suid.

"ll'lrcrr,'$ l)p eruy allswcr to tlral.
bsl'tltt'rc iles :o * l|rrdn' :.x:t'
jr':;E&t:: .il, ae riee*:ii --Lisertr-.biv." 

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\ . :::i'l:v-:'l1t^r'ti rdw, IrE salu I rI' : blaek representatiVeS and Sena-
i day in an interview. "I've tricd to i tori in th;40 cov;ied counties.. .

i l*ptqfs .oll them 
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(fellow legisla. i cuitford ana CumUeriin[ioun-I tors) that the courts do not protect; ties and counties in the northeast: andpres.ervepoliticalpartids." . 'I - aU covered by the act - have.. . .9n,Sld.Y, !n*fl{1r tt1c.d:ljir bi:-lii.,9i tt 

"'":iV,"t,:rtil;i.{cc;e :':t\e':crhg ic-n:de* :o ny.ciccjr lisdcrs rn ile Jucs-gd
votc on his prog:sels fgr black rlis- 

o-ne in the Senate.: tricts in the stste's- 
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urban But Spaulding and the btack or-i countir.s - trvo in r\llcLlenburg, ganizations are-trying io pcrsuaOe
; one.in Wake.and one in Forsyth- . [t e l,egistatuie toilo f=ur6ier. If notI The districts .wcre rejeeto4 irl " singlelmember districts state-
, 'g.upor"te votes, bu.t spauldine_fa9 iria?, u,ei woua ,ai ieast titie [o
1 the lawm.alcers.on the rccord.. That i sce tfie aiitricts in'[ig eounties not
! Ig:glglvill prob-rbly be used in thq i eovered by the aci, s-uch as l\Ieck-; . NAACP Lcgal Defense Fund.and I lcnburg,\iakeand'Forsyth.

Education Fund Inc.'s federallaw- . , ttre di:Uate is whethei the extra

lyit seeks single-member districts iliF ij hdt Utaet s more then it
, throughout the state. , 

;,; wourd their white supporters.
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