Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP

The Supreme Court ruled that South Carolina's congressional redistricting plan was not an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, finding that the lower court clearly erred in determining that race, rather than politics, was the predominant factor in drawing the district lines. The Court emphasized that plaintiffs must disentangle race from politics when the two are correlated and generally must provide an alternative map to prove racial predominance.