Fax From Stein to Cox RE: Draft Stipulations

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8. The parties stipulate and agree that the North Carolina General Assembly 

in enacting Chapter 11, 1997 Session Laws had strong basis in evidence to believe, based 

i; {vith respect to the Eastern part of the state from 

fucted the First Congressional District: 

A frican-Ameticans are politically cohesive; 

b. Racially polarized voting occurs such that sufficient numbers of white 
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citizens usually vote as 3 block to defeat the candidate of choice of African-American 

citizens; gp yn" an ORCA 

C. The totality of circumstances showed 4 history of race discrimination in 

the dlstoral vocers in North Carolina, the effects of which persist, including: 

i. a history of racial appeals during elections continuing into the 

1990s designed to mobilize polarized white voting and suppress African-American 

voting, 

   

il. African-Americans continuing to be at a socio-economic 

disadvantage as compared to whites in income, housing, education and health, adversely 

affecting their ability to participate in the political process on an equal basis; and 

iil. Prior to the creation of Congressional Districts 1 and 12 in the 

1992 Congressional redistricting plan, no African-American had been elected to 

Congress this century. 

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