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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
Creator
- Lani Guinier
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- 8f0ea1dc-df92-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873

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Case Files, Thornburg v. Gingles Working Files - Guinier. Attorney Notes Page 17, 1983. 4b9b615a-e092-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/6b487403-0738-44b6-9fb0-74159c0e7ea0/attorney-notes-page-17. Accessed April 06, 2025.

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bits and pieces of evidence form one Post

1 itigation election year. They ignore

such facts as these:

1. rn 22 of 25 primaries analyzed,

more than 50t of white voters did not vote

for the black candidate. T. p. 81.

2. During the Period from 1970-

1982, three times as many black candidates

as white candidates who managed to win in

Democratic primaries lost in the general

election. Even in 1982, when no wh,ite

Democrats lost in the general election, a

third of black democrats lost in the

general election. That is, while success

in the Democratic primary practically

assures election for white Democrats, it

does not assure success for black Demo-

crats.6 Px '19, T. p. ll4.

Thus this case is different from Whitecomb
v. Chavis, 403 U.S. 124 91971)r-Ti-6mE-
Efa?aEe of black candidates was linked to
the fate of white Democrats. When white
Democrats worlr so did black Democratsi

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