by Darren Janz | Feb 12, 2018 | Features, NC Political Geography
Anson County is a rural county located in the southern Piedmont region of North Carolina. Although Anson is less than fifty miles away from central Charlotte, the county is much more demographically similar to eastern North Carolina – it is part of the state’s Black...
by Darren Janz | Feb 8, 2018 | Features, NC Political Geography
Alleghany County is a small, rural county located entirely in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. One of five counties in the United States named for the Allegheny Mountains (spelling varies regionally), Alleghany County is one of North Carolina’s Lost...
by Darren Janz | Feb 5, 2018 | Features, NC Political Geography |
Nestled between the Piedmont Plateau and the Appalachian Mountains in the Foothills region of North Carolina, Alexander County is your typical small, farm-based county in the western part of the state. With a population of 38,452 as of mid-2017, Alexander County...
by Darren Janz | Feb 1, 2018 | Features, NC Political Geography |
This article is the first in a series of profiles analyzing the electoral history and political geography of each of North Carolina’s one hundred counties. An earlier version of this series, created by John Wynne in 2013, is also available on the Politics NC...
