Attorney Notes Page 36
Working File
January 1, 1983
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In HD *29 (part of ForsYth CountY),
in 1982, there were 9 white Democratic
cand idates, none of them incumbents,
running for 5 seatsr so the white vote was
unusuatly split and it was also unusually
Iow. In the general election, white
voters ranked the black candidates last
and next to lost, and the two were able to
win only because both white and Republican
turnout was unusually low in part because
there vras neither a
election nor an election for U.S. Senate.
White turnout was 20* Iower than in 1980.
In addition, 1982 $ras a Year in which
RepubI i cans did unusually poorly - T.
89-O 1 , 1 42, 179. In addition, one black
cand idate testified that for the first
t ime wh i te Democrats helped the black
candidates get exposure in the white