Yet you have no problem with NC district 12. I wonder why? Could it be because the Feds forced it on NC so a black could get elected? Same with district 1.
The State Constitution requires that where possible whole Counties must be in a single district. By the way thanks to the violation in 1 and 12 the republicans got Court approval to do the same in 2011 for the whole State. A 3 Judge panel ruled no violation for the current arrangement by the State legislature.
So thanks to you bed wetters and your ignorance the republicans followed suit.
Districts 1 and 12 work out to the Republicans favor. They pack the democrats into the two districts so all the surrounding districts are safely Republican. It was the GOP who designed the maps in 2011.
No matter how you slice up the map the Democrats are still going to win "some" of the districts in a state like North Carolina that is pretty fricking close to even partisan-wise with 13 districts.
District 12 is D+26....District 1 is D+19....That's probably somewhere in the range of ~80% or ~85% democrat. Now imagine spreading all those Democrat votes around the surrounding districts if they weren't there or weren't drawn the way they are....Do you REALLY think NO democrats would get elected?????? (BTW the MOST Red leaning district in the state is R+13.....)