North Carolina Boundary Lines Drawn on an Oak Desk

rapid, silent rhythm against the edge of the leather.

Ralph Hise stopped twirling his pen and let it drop onto his notepad.

“Every county has minor adjustments during a census transition,” Ralph said. “A few hundred residents here or there do not invalidate the entire draft.”

“It is not a few hundred,” I said. “The missing tracts represent twelve thousand continue reading …