Gingles v. Edmisten

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• rejecting claim that remedial plan insufficiently remedied \dilution\ for some minority voters not included in \safe\ districts; effect of remedial plan upon them too speculative to assess on extant record
• rejecting claim that remedial plan insufficiently remedied \dilution” for some minority voters not included in \safe” districts; effect of remedial plan upon them too speculative to assess on extant record
• “In experience, correlations above an absolute value of .5 are relatively rare and correlations above .9 extremely rare.”
• for purposes of determining minority vote dilution, \effective voting majority\ appropriate standard
• for purposes of determining minority vote dilution, “effective voting majority” appropriate standard
• \[I]n some elections the pendency of this very litigation worked a one-time advantage for black candidates in the form of unusual organized support by white leaders concerned to forestall single-member districting . . ..\

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