by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 3, 2021 | Politics
With a pandemic ravaging the state and thousands of unemployed people ill-served by a safety net his own party has shredded, Mark Robinson picked his issue. Earlier this week, the new lieutenant governor launched a petition to block the implementation of a modified...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 1, 2021 | Politics |
The year 2014 saw the death of a tradition that had lasted longer than it had had any right to persist. That was the election in which the last of the moderate Southern Democratic senators lost their seats and the region became a wasteland for Democratic candidates in...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 28, 2021 | Politics |
In the heat of the conservative backlash against Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, North Carolina Senator Josiah Bailey had some thoughts on an anti-lynching bill. “The proposed lynching bill,” he asserted, “is the forerunner of a policy...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 27, 2021 | Politics |
After North Carolina voted for Barack Obama in 2008, there was broad speculation that the Tar Heel state would join Virginia as an emerging blue bastion. That hasn’t happened in the intervening time period. While Virginia followed a swift path to Democratic...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 25, 2021 | Politics |
Politics and religion have always in this country. Before the twentieth century, most Americans’ understanding of the establishment clause differed from later conceptions. Biblical instruction was commonplace in public schools, and in North Carolina the state...
