Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. North Carolina''s 12th congressional district is located in central North Carolina and comprises portions of Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Lexington, Salisbury, and High Point. It is an example of gerrymandering. Before its current creation, North Carolina had a twelfth seat in the House in the nineteenth century and in the mid-twentieth century (1943-1963). The district was re-established after the 1990 United States Census, when North Carolina gained a district. It was drawn in 1992 as a 64 percent black majority district stretching from Gastonia to Durham. It was very long and so thin at some points that it was no wider than a highway lane, as it followed Interstate 85 almost exactly, and was criticized as a gerrymandered district.