Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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QUOTE OF NOTE: "[The court decision was] extremely disappointing...Voters in Florida have had to wait 127 years to elect an African American to Congress...
...Supreme Court decision--declaring the Second and 11th Districts unconstitutionally gerrymandered on the basis of race--has made this year's Georgia election something of a peach cobbler. All the state's 11 congressional districts had to be redrawn; African Americans lost their majority in two of three districts. Though conservative Republicans saw this upheaval as an opportunity, Cynthia McKinney is on track to defeat those expectations--and perhaps the odds--in the newly constituted Fourth. And the question much of the nation is asking is whether Newt Gingrich will be gone with the wind...
Outspoken and flamboyant, McKinney is Georgia's first black Congresswoman. In 1992 she was elected in the 11th District, which until last year was 64% African American. But she will seek re-election in the Fourth, which is only 33% black, because in 1995 the Supreme Court declared that the boundaries of the 11th had been unconstitutionally drawn on the basis of race. Her challenge now is to appeal to voters of both races, and with her campaign slogan, "Annoy Newt," she surprised onlookers by beating three white men to take the primary with 67% of the vote...
...dental floss. In fact, he speaks out regularly for good health care, while opposing universal, government-controlled health insurance. Norwood also supports the death penalty, and in most ways is a fiscal conservative. That may not appeal to his new constituency in the redrawn 10th, which is now 34% African American, twice what it was in the old district...
Stephenson is no political novice; and he can win races in which he is the underdog, including, when he was only 25, beating the mayor of Commerce. In the redrawn 11th--it's no longer African American, but is it conservative?--Stephenson says he won't be hamstrung by his party's agenda. He supports "workfare" as well as school-lunch programs...