by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 9, 2020 | Features, Politics |
On a lonely North Carolina highway bordered by soybean fields and rusting tobacco sheds, the Sons of Confederate Veterans put up a billboard. “Save your family history!” it exclaims over a picture of the Confederate Battle Flag. In the real world, that...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 1, 2020 | Features, Politics |
It took only 12 years after the founding of Jamestown for the South to take a sip form the poisoned chalice of white supremacy. The region, like much of the Soviet empire, was literally built by slave labor. And one year removed from the 400th anniversary of the...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 7, 2020 | Features, Politics |
After years of anticipation, the 2020 campaign season is finally underway. Democrats and Republicans in North Carolina have selected their nominees for the general election, and the dynamics of each race are beginning to take shape. At present, the state of the races...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 6, 2020 | Politics
Few icons are as deeply woven into North Carolina’s cultural fabric as the game of basketball. After hard days in the textile mills or tobacco fields, North Carolinians would huddle around black-and-white TVs to watch Southern Conference, and later ACC,...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 4, 2020 | Politics
The polling drought has broken in North Carolina. For the first three years of the Trump era, public opinion surveys were agonizingly scarce in the Tar Heel State. That’s because the state did not have any nationally relevant elections in 2018. State political...
