ndustries activities. It was achievements like these that got her easily re-elected in 1994. By this time she took on the role of being a fiery opponent to fellow Georgian Newt Gingrich. She was one of the three members who brought the current ethic complaints against the Speaker of the House for accepting free Cable- TV time which violated anti-gift rules. However, in 1994 McKinney received almost no white votes, even though she received 66% of the total vote in the district. From statistics like this, it is sufficient to believe that her political future seemed to depend on maintaining a majority black district. However, after the courts ruling on her district as being a racial gerrymander, maintaining the district did not appear to be plausible.The idea of redistricting is a very complicated subject. It calls for equal representation when differences are inevitable. Of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives each seat is apportioned by the population of the states under the Method of Equal Proportions. This method states that the differences of the size of district should be kept at a minimum. The national average is 570,000 people per district, but many districts have well over this amount as well as many below. On page 46 of Davidson and Oleszeks book, Congress and its Members, it states Because population figures determine seat and affect power, it is no surprise that nearly everything concerning the apportionment and districting process is controversial. Many of the arguments concern the official population census and its accuracy. Some claim that the census needs a revised count because it does not include the hard-to-detect population, mostly of whim are located in the inner city. An unrevised count, the people claim, violates the Constitutions equal protection clause. Along with this debate follows the idea of one person one vote. If populations of districts are extremely unbalanced than it is obvious that ...
