Redistricting is Boon to Black Politicians News Clipping

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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

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