Civil Docket for Case No 95 - CV - 1265 (as of 1/16/98)
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February 6, 1998

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Case Files, Thornburg v. Gingles Working Files - Guinier. Attorney Notes Page 18, 1983. 799b615a-e092-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/4e6c2335-8b41-434a-aaef-0ffca1a41abf/attorney-notes-page-18. Accessed April 06, 2025.
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l8 3. A majority of white voters was unwilling to vote for any black candidate. There has been no black candidate who garnered support from a majority of white voters under any condition no matter whether he was an incumbent, won the democratic primary in a highly democratic cou nty, or ytas runni ng unopposed. f t is particularly devastating that no black candidate can ever get votes from a majority of white voters sincer BS was discussed above, under the multiseat election system, depending on the number of candidates in relation to the number of seats, it may well take votes from more than 50t of voters to win. when black Democrats lost do di.d white Democrats. Here, white Democrats always win, but black Democrats frequently lose despite the success of their white counterparts.