RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s three most populous counties are unlikely to be split more than once under new congressional redistricting maps being drawn by the state legislature, the top Republicans in the state House and Senate said Tuesday.
The Democratic strongholds of Wake, Mecklenburg and Guilford counties were split twice — meaning each county was in three different U.S. House districts — under the maps passed by Republican lawmakers late last year.
Based on their sizes alone, Guilford County didn’t need to be split at all, and both Wake and Mecklenburg only needed to be split once, not twice.
