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      <![CDATA["It's not necessary to have black voters (or black and other minority voters) be a majority in a district to elect a black candidate. Many, in fact, were elected in the '90s and the '00s from districts with between 40 and 45 percent black populations."<br>
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I actually agree with you.
        
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      <![CDATA[Bob -- There's no question Republicans are subverting the Voting Rights Act intent of "enhancing the ability of minority voters to elect representatives of their choice." It's unfortunate that the way the VRA has been implemented -- to an extent -- has facilitated a Republican strategy of dividing black and white Democrats and gained the GOP undeserved political advantage.
        
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      <![CDATA[Lee -- Good point about the relative discrepancies between voter preferences and actual election outcomes. That's certainly true.
        
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      <![CDATA[Bob -- there are a number of ways "accountability" legislators could be chosen. It could be, as you suggest, through some sort of "party endorsement" process whereby the party "worker-bees" choose them.
        
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      <![CDATA[Proudly -- Assuming the "you" here is me, I would much prefer to have districts drawn by a nonpartisan commission. And no, I do not favor majority-minority districts.
        
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      <![CDATA[Well, you wish to have it both ways now don't you? You want minority-majority districts and you are happy with the current means by which districts are drawn, which clearly and legally includes gerrymandering for partisan advantage (though obviously you want the Dems to have that advantage).
        
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      <![CDATA[Lee -- I like the spirit of your plan.<br>
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Legislating (and governing) is sometimes a matter of individual initiative by one or a small group of legislators, e.g., legislators who specialize in environmental issues. But it is also -- and fundamentally -- a matter of party affiliation, as we see in the current General Assembly, where it's rare for any Republican legislator to depart from the Republican party line.
        
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      <![CDATA[Apparently, you do not remember the US House district that ran from Jones County to the Triad, either 1991 or 2001. Or Mel Watts' district in NC.
        
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      <![CDATA[Gerrymandering is used by the party in power to gain undeserved control without necessarily winning more votes. In the 2012 congressional elections, Democratic candidates won 50.6% of the statewide vote but only 4 of 13 congressional seats (31%).
        
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