Anson County’s flip to red highlights a shift in rural NC counties | WFAE 90.7
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on December 20, 2022
In a three-part series, WFAE looks at why Democrats continue to lose in most statewide races. Here in Part 2, we focus on political shifts in rural regions of North Carolina.
There’s a stretch of rural counties on U.S. 74 heading east from Charlotte to the beach that used to be reliably Democratic.
In the 2008 and 2012 elections, Barack Obama won them all — Anson, Richmond, Scotland and Robeson. All but Richmond are majority . . .
