The 19th: “What keeps you up at night?
When field organizers with Down Home North Carolina knock on a door in rural North Carolina, that’s the first question they ask. Health care comes up a lot. So does housing. And recently, abortion rights.
North Carolina has the second-highest rural population of any state after Texas and the highest of all the 2024 battleground states, meaning it’s stubbornly hard for Democrats to crack 50 percent of the vote. Candidates’ paths to victory run through the large rural swaths of the state, which is set to see a large amount of attention and spending this election cycle. For progressive organizers who work year-round, the path to building long-term political power lies with uniting the working class in the state’s rural areas — especially women and LGBTQ+ people.”