NC remap won’t necessarily produce Democratic majorities

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Redistricting experts say newly redrawn North Carolina legislative districts are skewed less toward Republicans than the current plans, which judges rejected for political bias, but they also say the maps wouldn’t necessarily guarantee Democratic majorities in 2020.
A three-judge panel is now reviewing the new state House and Senate districts approved this week by the General Assembly.
The judges’ Sept. 3 ruling rejecting the 2017 maps marked the first majo