[FreedomProtector]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11/03/biggest_gop_gains_in_statehouses_107826.html

Quote from article:

Probably the biggest prize for the GOP was the North Carolina legislature, where Democrats had used convoluted map lines to enshrine Congressional majorities and their own legislative majorities for decades. Unlike most states, North Carolina excludes the governor from the redistricting process. The three conservative Democrats who hung on this year will probably find themselves in much worse seats in the next cycle.

NC 12

North Carolina may be the most egregiously gerrymandered state. NC12 is an example. The democRATs typically win 55% 45%. The couple of Republicans who win are 75% 25%.

The egregiously gerrymandering which has denied the will of the people for a very long time will soon change. Republicans control the NC state house and senate for the first time in 112 years!

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

I m glad for that but still puzzled at some dems winning where locally they were not polled to..

[AuH2ORepublican]

That drawing is of NC-12 as created backnin 1992; it was struckndown as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander a couple of years later. The current NC-12 does not include any part of Gastonia or Durham.

While the NC Democrat gerrymanders have kept the GOP from winning more seats through the years, the black-majority NC-01 and the black-influence NC-12 actually benefit the GOP by reducing the black population in surrounding districts. Our real enemy are those 20%-30% black districts that allow white “conservative Democrats” to win by getting only 1/3 of the white vote.

The optimal congressional redistricting plan would include three black-majority or black-influence districts (one from Charlotte through black and Native American parts if NC-07 and NC-08 (Lumberton, Fayetteville, etc,); another from black parts of Winston-Salem, High Point and Greensboro to Durham and Chapel Hill; and a third from black parts of Raleigh to the black-majority areas of NC-01. That would leave 10 comfortably GOP districts in the rest of the state (provided that the NC-11 was redrawn so that its white Democrat base was shared with safely Republican NC-05 and NC-10.