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Originally Posted by Daradon
Nope, that's a district. Probably a bunch of rich houses by a river or ridge or something.
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Actually it's the opposite. According to
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It was drawn in 1992 as one of two black majority (minority-majority) districts, as blacks comprised 22% of the state's population. With 64 percent African-American residents, it stretched from Gastonia to Durham. It was very long and so thin at some points that it was no wider than a highway lane, as it followed Interstate 85 almost exactly, It was criticized as a gerrymandered district. When created in the 1990s, it was one of two minority-majority Congressional districts in the state, defined to provide African Americans an opportunity to elect a representative of their choice.
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