Correspondence from Anderson to Guinier

Working File
November 29, 1983

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  • Case Files, Thornburg v. Gingles Working Files - Guinier. Attorney Notes Page 22, 1983. 2ff65e42-e092-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/387ecf9d-93c7-41ae-9780-a37470faf215/attorney-notes-page-22. Accessed April 06, 2025.

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primary in 1982, a white candidate who

received votes from 14t of black voters

yron, and in the 1980 general election, a

white candidate got votes from 2* of black

voters and won. In Durham County, in the

1 978 and 1982 primaries, the only con-

tested elections analyzed, the white

cand idates who \ron got votes f rom less

than 5t of black voters. Ex 16(a) and

'l 6(d). In the Mecklenburg County Senate

general election in 1982, the leading

white candidate received votes from only

5t of black voters and won. There is,

thus r rlo support in the record for

appellantsr assertion that white candi-

dates need black support to win. App. Br.

34. Since blacks must single shot vote to

have any chance of electing candidates of

their choice, and since white candidates

do not need black suPPort to win, the

Solicitor Generalrs assertion that blacks

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