Biden lost the Tar Heel state to Donald Trump by just 1.4 percentage points in 2020, and a Democrat at the top of the ticket hasn’t managed to turn North Carolina blue since Barack Obama did in 2008. Now Biden’s team sees opportunity in 2024 amid a fresh abortion ban, a contentious, expensive gubernatorial race and steady population growth that has ballooned urban and suburban areas.
Most of my experience is in the Asheville area and mountain towns in general, which can be… interesting places. The rest of the state seems like college town after college town, other than the greater Fayetteville area. Even there it’s mostly military, so the politics should be as diverse as the greater population.
But man, when they go Red, they really go all out. Bunch of Mayberry wannabes.