NC-4 is not a gerrymandered district. Its the suburbs of Raleigh and happens to contain Durham, Chapel Hill, and Cary (home of transplanted Yankees). NC-1, NC-3, and NC-12, now those are gerrymandered districts.
Hope Lawson wins. If he does, it will probably be because of the Yankees in Cary, Durham and Chapel Hill are lost causes.
It most certainly is gerrymandered. It's just that if you are not from here you don't realize what they have done. They've taken an area (Wake County) that would vote pretty Republican if it were allowed to be lumped logically, and divided it into pieces. A big portion of R support is broken off of the southwest corner of the county and grouped with Chapel Hill and Durham, thus preventing any chance of us electing a Republican.
They do the same thing with Fayetteville:
http://www.fws.gov/southeast/pubs/maps/nc.pdf
What would be a nice Republican group of people around a military town is divided in two, for dilution.
There’s a few of us in Cary (Containment Area for Relocated Yankees) that are working hard to get rid of Price!