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The 2020 Election Could Change The Redistricting Conversation, Again

Credit North Carolina Legislature

The past 10 years have seen North Carolina’s legislative and congressional district maps drawn and redrawn, court-ordered resolutions to partisan and racial gerrymandering and the long-term impact of racial redistricting. The upcoming 2020 election will determine how the state’s communities will be represented for the next decade. Host Frank Stasio talks to political writer David Daley, Democracy NC's Tomas Lopez and Sen. Valerie Foushee about gerrymandering, redistricting, and voter disenfranchisement.

Host Frank Stasio talks to David Daley, author of "Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy" and "Unrigged: How Americans Battled Back To Save Democracy." Also joining the conversation is Tomas Lopez, executive director of Democracy North Carolina and North Carolina Sen. Valerie P. Foushee, D-Chapel Hill, chair of the board of directors for North Carolina Black Alliance about what’s at stake for voters.

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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
Stacia Brown comes to WUNC from Washington, DC, where she was a producer for WAMU’s daily news radio program, 1A. She’s the creator and host of two podcasts, The Rise of Charm City and Hope Chest. Her audio projects have been featured on Scene on Radio, a podcast of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University; BBC 4’s Short Cuts; and American Public Radio’s Terrible, Thanks for Asking.