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Race at issue in plan for voting districts
A Republican plan that could put more African-Americans in the N.C. General Assembly also could spark another round of court fights over the role of race in drawing voting districts.
The three dozen new districts proposed so far could boost the number of African-American senators by almost half and the number of black House members by a third.
GOP mapmakers say they designed the districts to conform to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. They added two so-called majority-minority districts in Mecklenburg County and one in Wake. cont......
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