North Carolina has had an oppositional reputation since the foundation of the Republic.
Originally a contrarian colony of small landowners who rejected the hierarchy of aristocratic elements in South Carolina, the proprietary owners established a more sparsely populated yet very lush state which kept to itself for much of its existence. One of the last states to ratify the Constitution ( the 11th, and in 1790), North Carolina also stalled before joining the Confederacy when the War Between the States broke out in 1861.
Now, North Carolina, along with Florida and Virginia, has become one of the first Southern state to flip toward Democratic control, at least briefly. In the ensuing years following President Obama's ascendancy to the White House, Republicans have regained control and carved up safe Congressional districts to protect the Republican party's resurging dominance in the state.
Aside from the embarrassing yet frivolous indictments against high-powered lawyer and native son John Edwards and the decline of the textile industry, I believe that North Carolina will regain her strong foothold as a bastion of limited government conservatism, defining marriage as a union of one man and one woman while prospering a revival of contrarianism that resists modern pressures to conform to failing norms.
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