34 ALEXANDER v. SOUTH CAROLINA STATE CONFERENCE OF THE NAACP Opinion of the Court at 17–19, and n. 7. In sum, there is no substance to the dissent’s attacks. IV The Challengers also raised an independent vote-dilution claim. The District Court held that this claim was governed by the “same findings of fact and reasoning” that guided its racial-gerrymandering analysis, and it thus entered judgment for the Challengers on that ground as well. 649 F. Supp. 3d, at 198. But in light of our conclusion that those findings were clearly erroneous, that conclusion cannot stand. Moreover, the District Court’s analysis did not take into account the differences between vote-dilution and racial-gerrymandering claims. A racial-gerrymandering claim asks whether race predominated in the drawing of a district “regardless of the motivations” for the use of race. Shaw I, 509 U. S., at 645. The racial classification itself is the relevant harm in that context. A vote-dilution claim is “analytically distinct” from a racial-gerrymandering claim and follows a “different analysis.” Id., at 650, 652. A plaintiff pressing a votedilution claim cannot prevail simply by showing that race played a predominant role in the districting process. Rather, such a plaintiff must show that the State “enacted a particular voting scheme as a purposeful device to minimize or cancel out the voting potential of racial or ethnic minorities.” Miller, 515 U. S., at 911 (internal quotation marks omitted). In other words, the plaintiff must show that the State’s districting plan “has the purpose and effect” of diluting the minority vote. Shaw I, 509 U. S., at 649 (emphasis added). In light of these two errors in the District Court’s analysis of the Challengers’ vote-dilution claim, a remand is appropriate.