“Using the Voting Rights Act to Discriminate: Gerrymanders, Two Racial Quotas, Safe Harbors, Shields, and Inoculations to Undermine Multiracial Coalitions and North Carolina’s Use of Racial Black Political Power”

Michael Curtis has posted this draft on SSRN (Wake Forest Law Review). Here is the abstract:

This Article focuses on new developments in the ongoing saga of North Carolina’s 2011 state legislative and congressional reapportionment and gerrymander. The earlier article included a review of devices, including changes in election laws, used in North Carolina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—at first, without explicit use of racial classifications—to undermine black voting and to disrupt the biracial Republican coalition. The North Carolina legislature’s 2011  redistricting and revision of statutes dealing with voting were also “reforms” with a rich potential to depress black voting and to disrupt the multiracial coalition of which blacks are a crucial part.

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