Fax From Stein to Cox RE: Draft Stipulations
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July 7, 1999
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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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NAME: Todd Cox
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