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Pennsylvania's two-seat reduction, for example, is expected to come
from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, where blacks have played an important
role in Democratic Party politics, despite the fact that Quaker State
Democrats control both houses of the legislature and the state house.

In New York, a GOP controlled legislature with Republican Governor
Nelson Rockefeller back in the state house for a third term in expected
to slice New York State's 41-men House delegation by two by eliminating
Democratic controlled districts in Manhattan, a center of black political
power, and the Bronx.

Only California's five-seat gain is clearly expected to reward
black expectations, with the clear possibility of additional state
legislative seats for black representatives and perhaps one more black
Congressional seat.

Texas, Colorado, and Arizona also gain one House seat each, with
Houston, Texas probably being the seat of a new black House seat, and
Florida will gain three, but Bond cautioned that "growth in these
states - unlike California's quick increase in black and white population,
represents a migration of 'Middle Americans' away from the crowded cities
and so-called 'black problem' of the East Coast. These new citizens
of Florida, Colorado, and Texas, like the new white citizens of
California are running away from the kinds of problems that affect
black people most.