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109th Lineup: 7 R, 6 D
108th Lineup: 7 R, 6 D
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North Carolina won a 12th House seat in the 1990 Census and, quite unexpectedly, a 13th seat in the 2000 Census. It beat out Utah for the latter by just 856 people, and because its apportionment population includes some 18,000 U.S. troops and diplomats who claim North Carolina as their home, Utah filed a lawsuit arguing that its apportionment population should be credited with Mormon missionaries overseas who claim Utah as their home. But in April 2001 a three-judge federal panel ruled unanimously against Utah and in November 2001 the Supreme Court affirmed that decision without opinion.

In the 1990s, North Carolina was the epicenter of race-based redistricting litigation, home to a legal controversy that went to the U.S. Supreme Court four times. Democratic legislators created their plans for 2002 with this litigation in mind. The state House and Senate passed the same plan in November 2001; in North Carolina the governor does not have a veto on redistricting bills. The plan created a new 13th District seat in the northern Piedmont which leaned Democratic in state elections, though it was even in the 2000 presidential race; the district ended up electing Democrat Brad Miller, not coincidentally the chairman of the Senate redistricting committee. The plan significantly weakened 8th District Republican Congressman Robin Hayes. It marginally improved the Republican-leaning 2d and 7th Districts seats held by Democrats Bob Etheridge and Mike McIntyre. It created six heavily Republican districts and three solidly Democratic districts, with the other four districts tailored to the needs of local Democrats. Republicans filed suit even before the plans were passed. But while their arguments about the Democratic plans for redistricting state legislative seats prevailed in the state Supreme Court, their case against the congressional district lines was dropped after the Justice Department approved the maps and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene. Litigation over two different sets of legislative maps delayed North Carolina's usual May state primary election until September in 2002 and July in 2004.