Correspondence from Lani Guinier to Tommy E. Tucker (Federal Courthouse)
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July 17, 1986

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Case Files, Thornburg v. Gingles Working Files - Williams. Brutal Redistricting Fight Shaping Up; Politics Shapes Weird Contours in District Lines News Clippings, 1981. 92264047-db92-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/6d10cd81-f7ca-4a51-b780-20a96f54bf4c/brutal-redistricting-fight-shaping-up-politics-shapes-weird-contours-in-district-lines-news-clippings. Accessed August 19, 2025.
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Andrews of Cary, is bursting at the seams. While the dropping of Chatham County, popula- tion 33.37.1. would leave the district near the ideal size. it would create an. o_ther problem: Randolph County would no longer be contiguous to the rEst of the district. ;;,, -''. : Andrews isn't saying publicty how he wanti thE district reshaped, but supporters say his first choice would be. a Re-. search Triangle district of lVake, Durham and Or- an ge co un ti es,.'. -"ilt,f:;t *r' : Andrews'',^;Xircond choice. the'itipporters say, would be .to keep \Uake and Chatham, but move Durham into the Znd. Andrews is a native' of Chatham and a.resi-' dent of Wake. ' I r " r' 't "' - .Whether the legislaturewill heed Andrews' wishes, however. is un- certain. His political stock was lowered last year by a controversy in- volving the mishandling of campaign contribu- tions. Several other politi- . _ cians have designs on the seat. including two state senators from Raleigh who have sought the seat - William A. Creech and Robert W. Wynne. How active either becomes in redistricting could signal their t982 intentions. ': Meanwhile, blacks are expectcd to push for a district built around Dur- ham and Orange coun- ties. Such a district would appeal to such black lead- ers as Howard N. Lee, the state's secretary of natu- ral resources and com- munity development. and H.III. "Itlickey" IUichaux of Durham, the U.S. at- torney for thc mlddlo dis.trict. , 16-l Thc News and Observer, Raleign, N. C. Sunday,January 11, l9Sl ffiHe on l]\.C. limes _ Splitting Wake lrom uur|t3T County not only y9u{d be.nopular amon}Durham's politicalli powerful blacks but ft would please some Ra_ leigh politicians, Creech, a _Raleigh rcsident and Johnston County nativo, mtght be encouraged td make a second try if thenew distrlct lr bullt around Wake. Johnston and some othor smaller countim to the east. , , Ttre5e atso hii' been s_peeula_tion. whlch Gov. J3m9! B. Hunt Jr.'s aidee i,ilfiJ.f"""ll;",[1.,#m rcdistricilng lt would De for splitting Durham and Wake into separate 'distticts that would leave good districts for Lee and state Transportation Sec- I retary Thomas W. ' Bradshaw, a former Ra- leigh mayor. . . The 6th District poses greater problems be- cause its population is be- low the ideal and it has a new Republican eon- . Sressman, W. Eugene Johnston. Johnston defeated vet- 'iran Democrat L. Ric- hardson Preyer, and there is speculation that Preyer will attempt a re-, turn in 1982. The pressure on the Democratic legis- lators will be to increase the 6th's population with , Democratic voters, possi- . bly by including Orange County in the district. .i The problem, however,.- is Randolph County. The , chances are good that the Republican-leaning coun- ty will no longer stay with*the '4th District. Ran- :-dolph would go nicely in a 6th district with Guilford, but that would shore up Johnston's hold district. 'o,, on the ,..As one Democratic Iegislator said, "It might be best for us just to concede the district to the , Republicans and protect the incumbents we've got." One of those incum- bents is Rep. Stephen L. Neal, whose Sth District borders on the 6th to the northwest. Neal has .faced tough Republican challenges in the last two elections and probably would like to pick up Democratie Rockingham County from the 6th and give Republican David- son County to another dis- trict. ., r State Sen. George W. Marlon Jr., D-Surry, who has congressional ambi- tlons, would like to see a more rural district creat- rv'' her P ed:'il gtriflffffiffiffi i *;ffi ; d;$'',#[,"' districts - the 8th and t - arc about the right s in poPulation, t cr'andes'in the orher lH, ,"iqlii:t*::ilfi"ifiti ff;.1ilffi'.;T"?:1fly" i[: j,iiihf;fi',l'::t,}.1#^i.*ff]$lliT,XfilAs;f i.tricts- could affect thc 'T*'i "wiqrr "tJI l*[[:tfi;!i,:ll;il'"flii;$,ffi 'the 8th District, u'h sharcs borders with 3rd, .lth, sth, 6th, ?th I sharcs borders with the niliirjil nl'iii"l|rr.'rfiey - trict, _which has grown-.I 3rd, .lth, sth, 6th, ?th 9th districrs. q,u ' share ' '"nui"""ditiiidt ' too lirge' oarticularly be-' ' '..11"","x1'l'iiihffi ' illfii:I}i*ffi ,' ltiitt#ttH##;i;;:; c.-trtartin, proba- talk that botlfllfli:'"':ll"r , [iJi"'-- - -- - *'* . btv u'ill not be .t,rtii.i imbitions{o-rcorisrcss' 1 ; ties' ffi ,:r,tlr;, rT"l,ufui ;tli{i i,:Hffi nUitmir,"*ditl ii ir"i^"iti."xi"nul,i''g coun- f"Y:LlPltnluo n,,,, or .,. tative, "iiria-iireio.give:i I fiI$..lTxii{u[ ;i"';1i$n:lg*,** i1[l6.diifi['ii'1ff {' "ornii.' that a-re added to l':lili,i:,ffi\;,j;--fi .:.' "r,-rnge'ioiiome smatter; ihe district. "Jii'iii,rriv ).. nemSctatic.counticl., .f Four congressionit "' -'i''t-"i" t as .lTtl !{k,?l '.. 't. Re districts are irithe East' Fountain retl , and rhe res'censusshows' top rro*.,[ll*']$lli'"'otot'iltf, ory! The Poputation of the nit -1.' about ideal, but Gudger alreadY is llnlng uo a-comeback camPatgn i,i'- ie8t. He rePortedlY ' ' would like to see ueme "riii" cl"reland CountY ;ill from BroYhill's district to the llth' / three of them with PoPu- " lrtions bclow the ideat . level. All four districts I "." held by well-en- , ,' trenchcd Democratic in' ' least one county will have ,' i .l 5th : EEEEE[I 6rh ^,1.r;;i . EEBEEE 537,726 '',,i til-,^.'. 496r967 ./ 525,53f il .,-ati I Many ol North.Carolina's I I congressional districls ' reapportionmenl by the Legislature this year. Under I ...I probably will take on a hew look , afler ":ri the U.S. Supreme Coui's one-man, one-vote.:,'- 'rullng, the idoal population ol each district should be about 531,100. f,lrrm ) driltrr 3'iEdIffi J..{lod l St }|rt EtrEEEM... 515,122,W j.; 531,280 Ualor I mroo 517,411 L-' l"':T-1.,'* - -7;- 1I 1 1 t! l#nffiffi;ffiffirg, 1 p|*ffi{{{gg!ig;i[::*nm*11ffiffi/;il;:",..";;.,].;;:;-;:;"j1.:"""H_ 'r*: rtr;.1il1ifiii ' #idf,#,fit;#iflffiF#ffifi$ffr-fiffirii;ii: {,ij flt iJ[i g;;ii"m*;*'g*'ffi**"*$:i;i.r'4ii,Ili",]ii;jiili:'I;rri:.:'1'r: ;iql]'1iji,\3ffip ;iLi'ir"'-'",l l.x' "r:'t1J"xl;:f{*,HT*,f"I;*ti;;;:].,:i:l"i' ', . 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Forryth Frank lin Grrton Gatat Grahrm Granvilla Grcrnr Guilford Hrlilar Harnatt Haywood Hondcrrcn Hcrtlord Hokr HYdo lrcdcll Jack:on 98,964 24,774 9,570 25,360 22,336 14.422 40,385 20,918 30.069 35.349 160,265 72.357 85,5r 3 67,3 r.r 5.820 &,794 20,530 I 04,788 33,374 r 8.940 12,497 6,s93 82,796 5r.015 70,631 246,522 I r.o84 t 2.40t t r2,6r8 24,451 40,658 r 50.035 56.082 242,*t 29,8r I r6r.288 8,8r 3 7.194 33,855 r 5.898 3 r 4,839 54,a08 59,249 46.449 58.088 23. I 09 20.293 5,125 82.461 25.878 to,?21 9,673 38,754 59.39t 42,44 35.0r 3 20,t38 r6,79r 25.735 ll(rc.586 t4.39r 22.355 50,374 66.338 102,779 22,289 r 12,165 75.@3 1o,337 ?8,326 22.r07 9,456 29.r lo 88.52t t2,904 9r,187 45.383 r0t,40l 83.164 98,829 53,299 49,243 32,244 48.t92 32.968 59.330 t0.240 23,31 6 3.988 70,212 35,340 298,753 t6,2lt I 4,786 3r,6r I 96.sr 3 58,323 62,t23 28,367 t 4.955 5.846, t 59. 5,8 74.429 . . t. r98t. Johntton Jonot Lcc Lrnoir Lincoln McOowcll Macon Maditon Marain Mecklcnhurq Mitchclt Montgomcry Moora N.lsh Naw Halrtrvcr Norrhampton Onslow Orangc Pamlico Parquotank Ponder Perquimant PrrtOn pirt Polk Randolph Richmond Roberon Flockirl9ham Rowan Ruthcrlord Sampron Scotland Stanly Srokcr Surry Swain Tranrylvania Tyrrcll Union Voncc Wokc Warrun Warhrn0ton Watauga Waync Wrlkes Wrlson Yadkin Yancey Sum ol l@ cuunticr Stota Totirl 'fhcta countt arc Arrliminary and tubiect ro change until finol orficial countr arc rrlearcd on or befor€ Aoril "Th* Stute tutJl,.illrcls rhr!,)ltrr.i,tl rr.u.rri,,r.1ttapportlonmcnl. Tha county detall rcllectlng Source: U.S. Oepartment ol Comorercc. 0rrrcuu ,,,.rIrl t.r tlr. Itrr.11111.111 ,rrr [Jr:rIrIlr.r ll li)rJt) tr;r 1r,1,;rr;.r.., ..t lhls it,irtc toral wdt unovarl.rblc upon prrntrng th|' docurn€ni. r,l C{rrtut. t07