by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 1, 2022 | Politics |
Seeing my longtime friend Mac McCorkle, along with his fellow researcher Rachel Salzberg, in PoliticsNC, was a great pleasure to me. I first met Mac nearly 13 years ago when he was first transitioning out of political advising and into the academic world, and he is...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 27, 2022 | Politics
In the mid-19th century with chattel slavery at its zenith, an African American man named David Walker wrote a pamphlet called the Appeal. A clarion call to his fellow Blacks, the Appeal sought “to awaken in the breasts of my afflicted, degraded and slumbering...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 26, 2022 | Politics
For all his disappointment at a Senate campaign gone bust, Mark Walker must derive a bit of satisfaction from having Pat McCrory’s fate in his hands. Former Congressman Walker has announced that, tomorrow, he will declare his political intentions for the...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 25, 2022 | Politics |
For all the maddening blizzard of destructive policies they have inflicted upon the state, the North Carolina Republican Legislature consolidated power with a simple two-step plan. First, gerrymander themselves into a voter-proof majority. Second, ensure that that...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 24, 2022 | Politics |
Between the year 2000 and 2020, the percentage of Americans with a college degree nearly doubled. At the turn of the millennium, a college degree was still a relative rarity in many American communities, with only 20% of the country’s population holding a...
