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The Shape Of Things: NC-06
The district: North Carolina's 6th congressional district includes all of Guilford County and a portion of Forsyth County, keeping the Triad largely unified in a single congressional district. In 2021, the state supreme court overturned the congressional map that split Guilford into three congressional districts. In 2023, the newly elected justices in North Carolina decided to rehear part of Harper v. Hall. This landmark redistricting case had previously struck down the 2021 congressional map as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. That watershed ruling clarified that state courts could and will intervene when the legislature violates voters' rights.
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History of the District: This region has a long history of gerrymandering, from the snake-like 12th district that packed Black voters into one long district from Charlotte, through the Triad and into Durham, to the infamous maps drawn in 2016 that split the Greensboro-based campus of NC A&T State University -- one of the largest HBCUs in the United States -- into two congressional districts. That map, a 10R-3D GOP plan, was declared unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. The legislature then drew a remedial plan that ceded two GOP seats for an 8R-5D split, creating strongly Democratic seats in the Greensboro and Raleigh areas. Democratic Rep. Kathy Manning first won this Piedmont Triad seat in 2020.
Our Shape of Things series raises awareness about the barriers to fair representation in local communities like Guilford County, North Carolina. It provides an opportunity to support our fight for their representation. Will you support All On The Line with a recurring donation of any amount to support our work to advocate for fair maps in places like North Carolina and other target states?
What's next?
| On March 14, the North Carolina Supreme Court will be rehearing significant portions of the landmark case, Harper v. Hall, that has made the maps in the North Carolina fair. If the court overturns recent precedent and allows the General Assembly to gerrymander with impunity, they will remove a fair map that allows voters of both parties an opportunity to elect their preferred candidates and revert to a map that divides heavily Democratic Guilford County into three different congressional districts, grouping each section with much redder, rural areas and distant suburbs -- effectively drowning out the voices of Guilford county voters. |
Last Friday, the Harper plaintiffs, a group of North Carolina voters supported by our affiliate, the National Redistricting Foundation (NRF), submitted a supplemental brief in Harper v. Hall.
This comes after conservative legislators seeking political opportunity petitioned the NC Supreme Court to reconsider the case. These legislators may believe that a change in judicial officers grants them permission to rewrite the law in their favor. But we know that is not how our judicial system works. Neither the law, precedent, nor the facts have changed. And we must not allow extremist conservatives in North Carolina to obstruct the redistricting process that will impact communities in CD-06 and across the state.
Our organization is working tirelessly to ensure voters in North Carolina are supported by a grassroots army fighting to restore our democracy. In order to protect fairness in districts like NC-06, we must take action now to help All On The Line advocate for fair maps. Can you help our efforts across the nation by making a donation today?
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