While the community has more minority residents than ever, it remains overwhelmingly white - 97.37 percent in the 1990 census.

His district would now have a higher proportion of minority residents.

The number of minority residents in the area rose 40 percent during the 1980's, city figures indicated.

Both saw the shift in the board's makeup as a transfer of power from minority residents toward a white elite.

The percentage of minority residents in communities has increased, sometimes significantly.

Poor and minority residents in neglected buildings, he said, "end up paying the price."

These have given the neighborhood the reputation of being hostile to minority residents.

A large number appear to be low-income, inner-city minority residents.

The board was declared unconstitutional two years ago as a result of a legal challenge brought by several minority residents.

That could give greater representation to the city's minority residents, who make up more than half of its population.