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I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.
Andrew Young
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Andrew Young
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: March 12
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Former Mayor Of Atlanta
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