Letter to Leslie Winner (Redacted)

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Letter contains data from the 1982 general election for Forsyth County provided by Dr. Franklin E. Rogers

LDF Attorneys
Cooperating Attorney
- Leslie J. Winner
Organization
- NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund, Inc.
Matter
- Gingles
Case
- Thornburg v. Gingles
U.S. state
- North Carolina
Collection
- Case Files
Taxonomy
Identifier
- d48f75d9-0ff1-ee11-904c-6045bdeb8873

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Case Files, Thornburg v. Gingles Hardbacks, Briefs, and Trial Transcript. Letter to Leslie Winner (Redacted), 1983. d48f75d9-0ff1-ee11-904c-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/5e672c0a-8a4b-4e0d-a148-e29a18673808/letter-to-leslie-winner-redacted. Accessed July 19, 2025.

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ME.' Lee.l ie lalinner
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The fnllotaring iE infor.ma.tion you reque_=.ted dur.inq our. pecerrt
tel ephonp con(.,prsat ion. I can compl ete -ln anal ysis o{ necent el *ct iansin Forsvth Cuuntv rcrh ich I hel ieve wi I I cl eanl y suhstant ia.te thehypothesis that uoting behauior is highlr polanize,J rarhen blacl.icarrdidatee nun loc public of f ice.

The studv r,rrill examine the election results of lZ county-pidecantestE in rrlh ich t,l ack candidates ran f or of { ice. These inc I ude:
1 . The 1976 race f or Fonsyth Coun ty Board c,f Comm i ss i snEp_c.-F,n imaryand general electione..
2. The 1?7S race far the lrlorth Carolina State Hc,u=e-pr.imary arrdgenenal electione.
3. The 1FgO raceE for the lrlorth f,anolina State Hou:.e and the For.sythcounty Boand of commissionens-pnimany and general electir_,n.:..
4 . The l-t*2 r'acPE f or' the tlnr'th Carol i rra 5t*.te Hnus.p and the For.s.>,thCc,unty Board of Commissioner.s-Frrimary _rnd general elections.

Fnom these tu,relue elections E( clear. Eattenn of crc,tinq heha,.rior.becomes neadily aFF'ar'ent. The pr'eliminar.l, data I haue e](a.minedindicates that the I ack of s.uppar't f or. hl ack: c;rrrdidates inpredominantl v rrth i te pnec incts is per.ua.si,.rE and conEistent, thu.=s'everel v I imi t ing the el ectar'al oppor'tun i t ie:. of t,l acFt candidates.. Euenthough ?l'f, of the neqietered utr,tens in For.el,th f,ount;, aFe bla.cpi r.Nou.t9E?) and approximatelr'..,-gi{ of the -rdult FoF,ulation c,ver ls ypar.E c,fage is bl acl( ( 1990 Ceneus data) n the proF,ort ion of I ocal I l, el ecte,Joff icials hag not apF,r.c,ached eimilar.f igur.pE..

Included is a sample of some of the data {rom the 1pgz generalelection lor the North E:arolina State Hous.e. Ct+ the ZS p"i'.inctsoutside o{ the citv of t^Jinston-$alem all had a majority whitePoF'ulation. In ?4 out o{ ?5 pr'ecincts for. ane candidate and Za out of25 for the other. the two black cendidates neceiued belc,u,.r the auerage,uote cast {or' Demscratic candidates. Thia difference ranged fr.om as. lowas ?:l belsrx the aupnagp to as high aE ?sl: trelsw the avepsge.

The coet for comFiring the infc,rmation far. this. anaryEie wourd t,e!F250.00. The cost fon appearing as an exper.t r,,ritness uuould be rFl2S,/,Ja,,,
p lus tr'rve l *:lpenseE. Thes'e caets hatre been kept min imal becauEe o{ thenatune of the iseueE inuol tred irr th is caEe.

AI so encl o=.ed is. a cgpy of m), u i ta. i+ th i:. inf c,r.mat ian can E,eusef ul in you| pending I i t igat ic,n contact me f c,n f urther ,Jetai I s.

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Sincerely,

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FRANK E. ROGERS

Hor Address

  

Tel. ?19 727-673?

Busi ness Address
Soc i al Sc i ence Dept.
P.O. 13037
[rlinston-Sal em State
lelinston-Sal em, NC

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Tel ?l? 761-?lll

arM.A.r.Ph,D.(1?72>
Fore igrr Pol icy in

Un i versi ty of Vi ngi n i
Di Esertat i on: Ch i na'E
Indoch i na,1?4?-t?66.
Fields of Special ization:Intennational Relations
American Govennment,Pol i tical Theory.

Hol y Cross Col I ege , B. S. , Phys i cs < 1963)

Ass i stan t Prof essor' , 1973-1978 t Assoc i ate
Pro{essor rl?78-greEent.Taught couFses i n
Amer i can Government, Ouant i tat i ue Research
Me thods, I n ternat i onal Re I at i ons,
Political Theory

co-authorr AIR CARGO:AN INTEGRATED SYSTEI'4S
VIElr, NASA-Langley Research Center, l97B

"Si no-Amen i can Rel at i ons and the Vi etnam
lrJan l?64-1966, THE CHINA OUARTERLYTNo.6d,
June l?76r pp.2?3-314.

URBAN POLITICS-A STUDY GUIDE-INDEPENDENT
STUDY BY EXTENSION. University of Nonth
Carol ina-Chapel Hi I I, l98f .

" EI ec t i on-80 : The l*lak ing of an EI ec toral
Database ', publ i cat i on pendi ng
80-t'4I CRO.

Eook Reviews {oe THE AMERICAN POLITICAL
SCIENCE REVIEI^|, PERSPECTIUE, JOURI\hL OF
ASIAN STUDIES, and others.

"Youth Employment-National Needs and Local
E{forts i n North Carol i na' , Th i rd Annual
Urban A+fiars ConfeFence of the Uniuersity
of North Carol i na-Apr i I l?81 .

" Interdependence and Sel f-Rel i ance: A
Theoret i cal Model to Anal yze Ch i nese
Fone i gn Pol i cy" . Annual Meet i ng of the
I 1 tgrnat i onal Stud i es Assoc i at i on-Toron to,
1979

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"The Targeting Behavior of Laos and
Cambodia" .Annual l"leet ing of the South-
eastern Conference of the AEsoc i at i on of
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'Impl ications of the Sino-Amenican
Rappnochement in Southeast Asia'. Annual
l4eeting o{ the Southeastern Conference
of the Association of Asian Studies-1977

"The Housing and Community Act o{ l?74-A
Part i aI Assessment".Vi rgi n i a Conference on
Unban Studi es-l ?75.

CURRENT Conrpleting a study of the cornelation
RESEARCH between voter part i c i pat i on and mi nor i ty

ACTMTI ES l*epresen tat i on i n Forsyth Coun ty

ATARDS Faculty Fellottr in the Historically Black
AND Colleges Program sponsored by the U.S.

GRANTS Department of Labor (1780)

Facul ty Fel I ow i n the NASA-ASEE Engi neen i ng
Systems Design Program at the Langeley
Research Center-Virginia (1978)

Summen Research 6rant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities <1976>

Three Research Grants fnom the hISSU
Consort i um on Reseanch Trai n i ng ( 1973-1 976)

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. Program of the Gouernment of Nonth Canolina

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I4emben of the Board of Directors of the
Forsyth County Council on Drug Abuse (197S-present)

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Letter to Leslie Winner (Redacted)

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