ABSTRACT
Ever since the General Assembly convened in February, it had been evident that redistricting decisions would be made by Democrats and that the Republican minority of two senators and fifteen representatives would be freely disregarded. Indeed, before the convening, Lt . Gov. H . Cloyd Philpott and Speaker-to-be Joseph M. Hunt, Jr., residents of adjoining industrial piedmont counties, had agreed that the Congres sional district problem should be handled in each house by a committee consisting of twelve carefully chosen Democrats, one from each existing district. The Republicans, contrary to previous practice, were to be un represented on these committees. T o chair the House group, Hunt se lected his Guilford County colleague, third-termer Ed Kemp, and Phil pott settled on Robert F . Morgan of Shelby, in Cleveland County, former president pro tempore of the Senate. In view of these appointments, it is interesting that none of the six redistricting bills subsequently intro duced suggested any change in the four-county, definitely urban Sixth District, which includes Guilford, and that neither of the bills proposing to pit the Democrat representing Senator Morgan's Congressional district
* See introductory note on p. 98. 191
against the state's one Republican ever received more than fleeting com mittee consideration. The apparent piedmont leadership of the com mittees was offset by the presence of two eastern leaders, Sen. Lindsay C. Warren, a former congressman and United States comptroller general, and Rep. John H . Kerr, Jr., a former speaker of the House, determined that their section should not lose a congressman.
