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Even moderate white Democrats have become increasingly conservative because of the removal of Black constituents from their districts. J. Roy Rowland, a moderate white Democrat, represented the Eighth District in Georgia from 1982 to 1994. During the 1992 redistricting, the number of Blacks in his district dropped from 36 to 21 percent, which he said had influenced his voting record...
...became more oriented toward a district that had changed," Rowland said in newspaper reports following his retirement last year. "I didn't vote for the Clinton budget, and I might have been inclined to do so in the past." Rowland retired last year, and he said the whole process of redistricting disgusted him. "Am I not capable of representing Black people?," he asked "I find personally offensive that this took place...
Kogut said a hearing will be held on May 10,where Rowland will plead not-guilty...
...case goes to trial, evidence seized bythe police in a search of Rowland's office andhome, where he also saw patients, will be reviewedby medical experts and presented before a grandjury, Kogut said...
Donald Zerendow, Rowland's attorney, could notbe reached for comment