Brief of Appellees; Opinion

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July 7, 1988

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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

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