The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday blocked a lower court ruling that threw out the state’s new congressional map, allowing the new districts to stay in place, at least for now. A federal panel, by a 2-1 vote, said a few days earlier that the new map was racially gerrymandered.
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Mrs. Eliza Patillo was honored to give the name of the church. She chose “Concord,” the name of the old church in Georgia in which she had been converted. When Mrs. Patillo rose to pronounce the name with a shout of praise, it was the beginning of a revival that stirred the country for miles around. Two years later, the Texas and Pacific Railroad surveyed a right-of-way near the Concord and laid out a town plot. The railroad company changed the right-of-way to the present line and the railroad was built in 1874.
