Virginia creates new senate district with black majority

Details at Tidewater.com:

The new redistricting plan approved by senators features the first
new majority-minority district in the Virginia Senate since 1991.

District 25 stretches from Danville to Franklin and includes Southampton and Isle of Wight counties and a portion of Franklin.


Sen. John Watkins, R-Chesterfield, said the new district has an African-American population of 56.2 percent.


“Stretching across Southside Virginia, it will provide the
opportunity for rural African-Americans in Virginia to elect their own
representative to the Senate,” Watkins said. “And it has been drawn
without an incumbent senator to truly provide an opportunity for this
community.”