Kate Barr's Senate Race Was Impossible To Win. That Was The Whole Point. - Charlotte Magazine

A Guide To North Carolina's Gerrymandering - Charlotte Magazine

Kate Barr’s quixotic run for a state Senate seat reflects a hard reality for North Carolina voters: For the past 15 years, the Republican-controlled General Assembly has drawn and redrawn congressional and legislative district lines to secure partisan advantage, and the result is one of the most gerrymandered states in America. That’s not to say Democrats didn’t do it, too, when they held legislative power, as they did for more than a century be…