Fax to Cox from Carraway RE: Edited Joint Appendix
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July 26, 2000

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Case Files, Cromartie Hardbacks. Fax From Stein to Cox RE: Draft Stipulations, 1999. 93911bd3-dd0e-f011-9989-7c1e5267c7b6. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/1251f872-044b-4bf0-b193-12d484a24c66/fax-from-stein-to-cox-re-draft-stipulations. Accessed June 03, 2025.
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S Ad Based upon the record evidence before the Court, the parties agree that they will not contest in this case that: ¥ In North Carolina and in the areas comprising Congressional Districts 1 and 12 of the 1997 Sessions Laws, Chapter 11 in the 1997 Redistricting Plan, African-American voters are politically cohesive. 2. In North Carolina and in the areas comprising Congressional Districts 1 and 12 of the 1997 Sessions Laws, Chapter 11, the white majority votes sufficiently as a bloc to enable it, in the absence of special circumstances, usually to defeat the African-American voter’s preferred candidate. 3 North Carolina and the areas comprising Congressional Districts 1 and 12, as created by 1997 Sessions Laws, Chapter 11 have a long history of official discrimination against its minority citizens which has affected the right of minority citizens to register, vote, and otherwise participate in the electoral process. 4. For nine decades, from 1901 until 1992, no African-American candidate had been elected to Congress in North Carolina. 5. In North Carolina, African-American voters were disenfranchised as a result of deliberate state laws that both denied African-American voters access to the ballot box and diluted their votes. 6. The State of North Carolina utilized measures such as poll taxes, literacy tests, anti-single shot voting laws, and at-large and multi-member election districts to exclude African- Americans from the political process. 7. In its 1970 and 1980 reapportionment plans, the North Carolina General Assembly intentionally fragmented the African-American vote in the northeastern portion of the State to make sure African-American voters could not garner enough support to elect their preferred candidate to Congress. 8. In North Carolina, racial appeals in campaigns have been used, as late as the 1990’s, by white candidates to discourage white voters from voting for African-American candidates. 9. The minority citizens of the State of North Carolina and the areas comprising Congressional Districts 1 and 12 as created by the 1997 Sessions Laws, Chapter 11 continue to bear the effects of historical racial discrimination in such areas as education, employment, and health, which hinders their ability to participate effectively and equally with white citizens in the political process. 10. African-American voters as a whole are less well-educated, lower-paid, more likely to be in poverty, and have less access to telephones, cars, and money than do their white counterparts, which adversely affects their ability to participate effectively in the political process. 11. 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