by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 20, 2022 | Politics |
The Democratic Party is the only major political party in the United States that still believes representative democracy should prevail in a multi-racial society. Democrats represent communities that have long suffered exclusion from the democratic process and have a...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 19, 2022 | Politics |
Six decades after Jim Crow crumbled, a significant portion of the South’s white population has not accepted racial equality. In fact, these reactionaries are in the midst of an effort to restore an ersatz version of the White Man’s Republic by handicapping...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 18, 2022 | Politics |
The North Carolina Republican Legislature did not expand the state Supreme Court in order to nullify the results of the 2016 judicial elections. That’s about the only attack on the independent judiciary that they have restrained themselves from pursuing. In...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 14, 2022 | Politics |
From time to time it is important to peruse a statistical portrait of the nation’s politics. Politics cannot be reduced to a science, at least not yet; it is too raw and human for perfect quantification. But we need data to debunk false popular impression and...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 12, 2022 | Politics |
Odd though it now seems, Congressman Mark Walker once appeared to be a savvy politician. He was a former preacher and strong social conservative who presumably could attract the support of North Carolina’s many white evangelical Christians, but, at the same...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 11, 2022 | Politics |
“The heart and soul of North Carolina’s industrial future is the Research Triangle,” said former Governor Luther Hodges. Hodges and several heavy-hitting Triad businessmen had the audacity to form a high-tech research park in the patch of hardwood...
