{"id":106098,"date":"2022-12-21T20:06:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T20:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=106098"},"modified":"2022-12-21T20:06:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T20:06:38","slug":"brunswick-county-changes-help-explain-why-nc-democrats-keep-losing-races-for-senate-and-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=106098","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Brunswick County changes help explain why NC Democrats keep losing races for Senate and president&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wunc.org\/2022-12-19\/brunswick-county-changes-help-explain-why-nc-democrats-keep-losing-races-for-senate-and-president\" target=\"_blank\">WUNC<\/a>: &#8220;A Democratic presidential candidate has won North Carolina only once since 1976, when Barack Obama defeated Republican John McCain by less than half a percentage point in 2008. Democrats have lost U.S. Senate races in 2010, 2014, 2016, 2020 and 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To understand why North Carolina Democrats keep falling short, WFAE reporters traveled U.S. 74, from the beach to Charlotte, examining the forces that are keeping the GOP one step ahead of Democrats in statewide federal races.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first stop: Brunswick County, which shows demographic changes don\u2019t always favor the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conventional wisdom is that newcomers moving to Charlotte and the Triangle are turning North Carolina blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That thinking notes that while the state\u2019s largest cities are swelling with young, diverse and progressive voters, the Republican Party is left with the state\u2019s rural areas, where the population is often falling. That\u2019s where older voters \u2014 who once voted Democratic \u2014 are now keeping the GOP alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a lot of truth in that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it misses another key part of North Carolina politics: The state\u2019s fastest-growing counties are increasingly Republican.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WUNC: &#8220;A Democratic presidential candidate has won North Carolina only once since 1976, when Barack Obama defeated Republican John McCain by less than half a percentage point in 2008. Democrats have lost U.S. Senate races in 2010, 2014, 2016, 2020 and 2022. To understand why North Carolina Democrats keep falling short, WFAE reporters traveled U.S&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106099,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106098\/revisions\/106099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}