Alexander Jones

1 week ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |Alexander Jones

Between 1984 and 2008, North Carolina Democrats never received more than 42% of the vote in a presidential election. Even when Southerner Bill Clinton nearly won the state in 1992, he garnered exactly that number, and the reason that George H.W. Bush didn’t easily dispatch him appeared to be that Ross Perot siphoned off a portion of the state’s natural […]

1 month ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |Alexander Jones

The most influential force shaping the dynamics of North Carolina politics is white, rural anger. State politics are dominated by rural white men. And the virulent tone of these men’s politics draws its force from the resentments that thousands of rural whites harbor against social forces they believe have disenfranchised them. Their desire to strike back against liberal elites is […]

1 month ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |Alexander Jones

Don Davis has accomplished an impressive feat: He is a two-term Democrat in a district specifically gerrymandered to wipe out his political career. Yet he somehow seems to be North Carolina’s most criticized Democrat. Davis’ problems with the left, however, reflect his success as a political operator. Short of perhaps Roy Cooper himself, Davis is the savviest Democrat in North […]

1 month ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |Alexander Jones

Roy Cooper is the most successful North Carolina politician of the last 25 years. Cooper has won six statewide elections while Republican presidential candidates carried the state. National observers have been duly impressed. As he transitions out of the governor’s mansion, Cooper can continue expanding his legacy. Cooper completed his two terms as governor having had a highly successful tenure. […]

2 months ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |Alexander Jones

The GOP’s recent “sore loser” law in North Carolina has alarmed many observers with its threat to the separation of powers. The party’s legislative imperialism is far outside the American tradition. But, as so often happens in the South, this abuse that seems aberrant to most Americans in fact reflects a longstanding regional pathology. North Carolina Republicans are following a […]