Gerrymandering in North Carolina

1. Look at the map.  By what margins did Democrats win in the 3 districts that they won?

40,46,48

2. Look at the map.  By what margins did Republicans win in the 9 districts that they won?

5,6,11,13,13,14,19,20

3. What percent of the votes for Representatives did Republicans and Democrats earn statewide?

50%;48%

4. What have federal courts said about the district lines in North Carolina?

Federal courts deemed them  unconstitutional.

5. What did Democrats fail to do in both North Carolina and Ohio?

Democrats failed to pick up a single house seat despite winning close to half the popular vote.

6. Why did Pennsylvania have new districts for this election? What was the result of the House elections in Pennsylvania this year?

The new districts were court ordered; went from 13-5 split to 9-9 split.

7. How does the article describe the residential patterns of Republicans and Democrats?

Democrats tend to be concentrated in urban areas, while Republicans are distributed more efficiently across suburban and rural terrain.

8. After the district lines were rejected because they were based on race, what justification was used for the new district lines?

Woodhouse said it was impossible to keep more than that intact and still follow the requirement that each district have an equal population.

9. How do the district lines counter the large number of Democratic votes in cities like Greensboro, Winston Salem, and Fayetteville?

They split the cities up so each portion of the city is still non majority in the district it's in.

10. What other laws has North Carolina passed that disenfranchised voters in the state?

In 2013, it passed one of the nation's most restrictive voter identification laws.