Justice White delivered the opinion of the Court. The issue in this case is whether the at-large system of elections in Burke County, Ga., violates the Fourteenth Amendment rights of Burke County’s black citizens. I Burke County is a large, predominately rural county located in eastern Georgia. Eight hundred and thirty-one square miles in area, 1</footnotema…
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