I am sure this is the question that everyone is asking. The districts were drawn up in under a week. That doesn’t leave much time for sophisticated scheming. Let’s refresh ourselves on the current racial breakdown of the districts:

Current Congressional Districts

This graph shows the percentages of each district as they currently stand. Now lets take a look at the new, proposed districts:

Proposed Congressional Districts

NC is 22% black. District One is still has 2x as many black voters as the state average and District Twelve still has 1.5x as many. The remaining districts are closer to the average, but given that the premise of the redistricting was to avoid racial bias specifically in districts 1 and 12, it is unclear whether or not the problem has been solved.