Race & Redistricting

by Tinsley E. Yarbrough

Book Overview

Through much of the 1990s, a newly hatched snake wreaked political havoc in the South.

When North Carolina gained a seat in Congress following the 1990 census, it sought to rectify a long-standing failure to represent African American voters by creating, under federal pressure, two "majority-minority" voting districts. One of these snaked along Interstate 85 for nearly two hundred miles--not much wider than the road itself in some places--and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 070061219X
• ISBN13: 9780700612192
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 7.7"