Correspondence from Winner to Yoemans

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Matter
- Gingles
Case
- Thornburg v. Gingles
U.S. state
- North Carolina
Collection
- Case Files
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- 6e7cdf15-d692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b

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Case Files, Thornburg v. Gingles Hardbacks, Briefs, and Trial Transcript. Correspondence from Winner to Yoemans, 1984. 6e7cdf15-d692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/45247e34-c9d2-45e4-a871-5e68f848e3e5/correspondence-from-winner-to-yoemans. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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FERGUSON, WATI WALLAS & ADKINS, P.A.

ATTORNEYS AT LAW

SUITE 730 EAST INDEPENDENCE PLAZA

95I SOUTH INDEPENOENCE BOULEVARD

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA 28202
TELEPHONE (7O4) 375-946 IJAMES E, FERGUSON. II

MELVIN L, WATT

JONATHAN WALLAS

KARL AOKINS

YVONNE MIMS EVANS

JOHN TA1 GRESHAM

LESLIE J. WINNER

JOHN T NOCKLEBY

GERALDINE SUMTER

FRANK E, EMORY JR.

THOMAS M, STERN

November 7, 1984

Bill Yoemans
United States Department of Justice
Civit Rights Division
Appellate Section
Room 5734
1Oth aPennsylvania Streets
Washington, D.C. 20530

RE: Edmisten v. Ginqles

Dear Bill:
As you requested on the telephone, I have enclosed a copy of the
summary of statistics concerning our analysis of raciatly polarized
voting in Gingles v. Edmisten as werr as a copy of the deposition
of Representative Hauser. r have arso enclosed a copy of plain-
tiffsr Exhibits 19 and 4I. I sugqest that you ignore the top
half of PlaintiffsrExhibit 19 which turned out to be not very
probative. The bottom half shows that even in L982 black demo-
crats did worst than white democrats. It also shows what an
unusually bad year L9B2 was for Republicians in North Caro1ina.

Plaintiffsr Exhibit 4L is the graph of North Carolina black
elected officials. It does stop in 1981. However, if you look
at page 285 of the transcript, Dr. Watson testifies that there is
no substantial change between 1981 and L982.

If you have any guestions about any of these exhibits, or for
that matter about anything in the record, I will be happy to
attempt to answer them.

I appreciate your careful attention to this matter.

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Winner

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Enclosure
cc : Ms . Lani Gui ni er t,/

Sincerely,

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