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If there's a solution to the problem of race-based voting, no one has come up with it yet. But the bottom line is that it appears that black voters have few options for getting the full attention of their party, or any other party for that matter. As Arrington points out, even if large numbers of African-American voters had voted only for Williams to register their discontent with the Democratic Party, both Williams and Helms could have lost. Or just one could have lost. Either way, the Republican Party would have still taken over the county commission.
And either way, there'd still be a lot of unresolved tensions between the two races that no one really wants to talk about.
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