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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%/v/ .kx ,' Y. \. q% 22 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