The Trump administration has pushed Republican leaders to redraw House district maps before the midterm elections next year. His party already holds 10 of North Carolina’s 14 congressional seats.
A fight over congressional maps is nothing new in North Carolina, a politically divided state where the governor’s mansion has long been occupied by Democrats, even as Republicans have controlled the legislature since 2010.
The plant owned by Accurate Energetic Systems has long been an economic bedrock in rural Hickman and Humphreys Counties. Now it’s a source of widespread grief.