ed a seat. They have been the only father-daughter legislative team in the country. As a state representative Cynthia helped re-district her own future district by aggressively gaining a seat on the re-districting committee. One year later she was running in one of those districts on a very low-budget, yet aggressive campaign. Her victory in 1992 made her the first black women ever elected to Congress from Georgia.Up until 1990 Georgia had only 10 congressional seats. But after the 1990 census they gained a seat which forced them to develop new districts. McKinneys eleventh district became the third black-majority district in the state, and Georgia went from having no black representatives to having three. Taking this into consideration it is easy to see that race is still a predominate factor in voting, and therefore in order to gain equality, it should be a factor in districting. The eleventh district has often been labeled as Shermans March because it stretches over 260 miles and 22 counties from Atlanta to Savannah, much like the Generals path in the Civil War. Aside from having this odd shape the district is 64% black and heavily democratic. In the 1992 presidential election 67% of the vote went to Clinton in this district while less than half went to him from all of the United States. McKinney currently serves on the House Agricultural committee and the International Relations committee (as well as the sub-committees of Department Operations, Nutrition and foreign Agriculture, and International Operations and Human Rights). As a feisty and out-spoken leader she has worked on cutting the budget while continuing to fulfill needs to children and the poor, as it states in the 1996 edition of Politics Now. At one point in her first term she took on a mining company of kaolin in her district which was accused of price-fixing and fraud, and in late September 1994 the Justice Department launched an antitrust probe into this i...
