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Per the 2020 U.S. Census, the racial and ethnic distribution of North Carolina's population was 60.5% white non-Hispanic, 20.2% Black non-Hispanic, 1.0% Native American/Alaska Native non-Hispanic, 3.3% Asian non-Hispanic, 0.1% Pacific Islander non-Hispanic, 0.4% Other race non-Hispanic, 3.9% Mixed race or Multiracial (non-Hispanic), and 10.7% ...
In December 2023, two lawsuit were filed in the Middle District of North Carolina, with the first challenging the 1st, 6th, 12th, and 14th congressional districts in the map, [31] [32] and the second, challenging multiple specific districts in the congressional and state legislative district maps, as racial gerrymanders.
A majority-minority district is an electoral district, such as a United States congressional district, in which the majority of the constituents in the district are racial or ethnic minorities (as opposed to Non-Hispanic whites in the U.S.). Race is collected through the decennial United States census.
The latest congressional map “continues North Carolina’s long tradition of enacting redistricting plans that pack and crack minority voters into gerrymandered districts designed to minimize ...
The lawsuit alleges that districts 1, 6, 12 and 14 — which span Eastern North Carolina, the Triad, Mecklenburg County and more — are all racial gerrymanders and must be struck down.
Considering only those who marked "black" and no other race in combination, as in the first table, the percentage was 12.4% in 2020, down from 12.6% in 2010. [1] Considering those who marked "black" and any other race in combination, as in the second table, the percentage increased from 13.6% to 14.2%.
North Carolina is the third state ordered by the courts to redraw its lines. A federal court struck down Alabama's congressional map, claiming a racial gerrymander, and Ohio's state supreme court ...
This list of majority-Black counties in the United States covers the counties and county-equivalents in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of United States Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the population in each county that is Black or African American.