Brief of Appellees; Opinion
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July 7, 1988

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35 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