Redistricting is Boon to Black Politicians News Clipping
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July 5, 1982

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t- ( ( 4 Daily 25c, SundaY 50c Main Number 829,0500 Classlfied 829'4600 Circulatlon 829-4700 The News and Observer ,]l3^ Ralelgh, N.C., ilonday, July 5, 1982 Under the dome Redistricting is boon to blaek politicians In February, state Rep. George A. Hux, D-Halifax, compared the partition of Halifax and other northeastern North Carolina coun- ties to create majority black dis- tricts to the Western allies' ap- peasement of Adolf Hitler at Mu- nich in 1938. As votes from Hux's new black maJority 7th House District were tabulated Tuesday night, he be- came one of the foremost victims of 1982 legislative reapportion-. ment. Statewide, reapportionment ap- f R"rrt to be playing a major role in " at least doubling the number of black legislators. Hux, who tried to amend legisla- tion creating black-majority dis- tricts in his area, was defeated soundly by Frank W. Ballance, a black attorney from Warrenton. Ballance received 53.8 percent of the vote compared with 38.4 per- cent for Hux, chairman of the Courts and Judicial Districts Com- mittee in the lg8l session. A third candidate won the remaining ?.8 percent. See DOME, page 6A