"district" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The last Congressional elections seriously undercut the old assumption that black Congressional candidates in the Deep South could not win in majority-white districts.
- But in other majority-white districts like his, he added, "people are concerned about their own political hides."
- Only a few majority-white districts, notably the Republican districts that elected Mr. Franks and Mr. Watts, have sent black or Hispanic Representatives to Congress.
- J. C. Watts of Oklahoma and Gary Franks of Connecticut, African-American Republicans, were elected to Congress from majority-white districts; black Democrats have also done so.
- Instead, it adopted the same lines that had already been drawn for the Police Jury, the local governing body, which had 12 majority-white districts.
- The all-black municipal government in this town of 1,515 people, responding to complaints by whites who said they were not being fairly represented, agreed Tuesday to create a majority-white district in a new ward system.
- This will create enormous pressure to preserve the seats of minority legislators, three Hispanic and four black, some from majority-white districts, not to mention accommodating the huge growth in Hispanic population.
- They said the lower court had ignored the extent of racially polarized voting in Tennessee, which they said meant that no black candidate could hope to win in a majority-white district.
- It is also the most Democratic majority-white district in the United States.
- At issue was the Justice Department's refusal, in 1993, to approve a redistricting plan for a rural Louisiana school board that retained all 12 of the previous plan's majority-white districts.
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