{"id":139332,"date":"2024-11-28T14:24:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T14:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=139332"},"modified":"2024-11-28T14:25:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T14:25:40","slug":"how-republicans-gained-ground-in-rural-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=139332","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How Republicans Gained Ground in Rural North Carolina&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theassemblync.com\/politics\/republicans-democrats-rural-north-carolina-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Assembly<\/a>: &#8220;There was never any doubt Charles Ray Peterson would be a Democrat. His parents, grandparents\u2014everyone he knew in Bladen County, really\u2014were Democrats.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Peterson, 70, served on the Bladen County school board for 12 years and has been a county commissioner for more than two decades. \u201cWhen I got involved in politics,\u201d he said, \u201cyou almost had to be a Democrat to win.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">But not anymore. Peterson changed his party affiliation to Republican in 2017, joining a growing number of people in rural North Carolina to eschew the Democratic Party. When he cast his ballot this year, he voted for a straight Republican ticket&#8230;.\u201cIt just seems the Democrats have gone too far to the left with this \u2018woke\u2019 agenda,\u201d Peterson said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">That was the central message from Wayne Schaeffer, chairman of the Bladen County Republican Party, as he rallied voters through social media posts, email blasts, and face-to-face conversations on the street and at church.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI beat the drum on making people understand that the broader issue at play here is agenda,\u201d Schaeffer said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t get out and vote for a straight Republican agenda, you\u2019re allowing the Democratic Party to install an agenda which will be contrary to your own conservative values.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the Assembly: &#8220;There was never any doubt Charles Ray Peterson would be a Democrat. His parents, grandparents\u2014everyone he knew in Bladen County, really\u2014were Democrats.&nbsp; Peterson, 70, served on the Bladen County school board for 12 years and has been a county commissioner for more than two decades. \u201cWhen I got involved in politics,\u201d he said,&#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-139332","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\/139332","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=139332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139334,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139332\/revisions\/139334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}