Republican legislative leaders weren’t justified in drawing
majority-black political districts in areas where African-American
voters already had proved to elect their favored candidates in
coalitions with whites, U.S. Rep. Mel Watt and other Democratic elected
officials said at a redistricting trial Tuesday.

…Watt and other black politicians testified that racially polarized
voting doesn’t exist in their areas anymore or has decreased
dramatically, and so majority-black districts aren’t needed there for
black candidates to succeed. The decision by Republican mapmakers to
create districts that are more than 50 percent black as a reasonable
remedy to avoid some challenges under the U.S. Voting Rights Act is
wrong, they argued.  NewsObserver.com