The city's voting rights record has been relatively progressive since the 1960s, said Paul Gaston, a professor emeritus of Southern and civil rights history at the University of Virginia. Still, he called the Supreme Court decision troubling. "It's not so much a problem for this area as it is for the rest of the state," said Gaston, who was active in the local civil rights movement in the 1960s. "Charlottesville has been a lot more progressive since the 1960s than it was before that. I don't see the voting laws in Charlottesville being changed because of this decisio...