Christopher Cooper

And the fact that it is a purple state.

that, as you said, has a Democratic governor, has a Democratic lieutenant governor, has a Democrat attorney general.

None of that really matters if the goal is just to get more Republicans in Congress.

It takes the first congressional district, which is represented by

African-American Democrat named Don Davis moves it from being the most competitive district in the state and arguably the most competitive district in the United States South, essentially shuffle some of those Democratic voters and African-American voters into the third congressional district, which is represented by a guy named Greg Murphy, who's a Republican.

So it makes Greg Murphy's district a little bluer, but certainly no threat to Republican reelection there, turns the first district into one that is more

friendly towards Republicans, and at the same time drops the Black voting age percentage in NC1, Davis' district, from 40% to 32%.