by Alexander H. Jones | May 10, 2022 | Politics |
By 1840, when John Motley Morehead took office as governor of North Carolina, the illiteracy rate for white North Carolinians was 26%. Based on nationwide studies, we can infer that the illiteracy rate for enslaved Blacks could not have been lower than 95%. The state...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 9, 2022 | Politics |
One of the great mysteries of American politics concerns the asymmetry between voter views and voting outcomes. For years, public-opinion surveys have revealed a country that leans toward Democrats on the issues; regardless of this sympathy, the Republican Party...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 3, 2022 | Politics |
Based on a draft opinion leaked to Politico, the United States Supreme Court appears likely to overturn Roe v. Wade by the end of the year. That decision would rocket abortion to the top of the issues motivating American voters. Women would lose rights in half the...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 2, 2022 | Politics |
If the Republican Party is “populist,” then where are the people? GOP politicians more and more relish the pose of tribune of the ordinary man and woman, but little has changed in the ideological makeup of their party. The Republican platform remains,...
by Alexander H. Jones | Apr 28, 2022 | Politics |
The Fourth Congressional District of North Carolina lies in the high-tech woodlands of the Tar Heel Piedmont. Affluent and liberal, NC-04 elected progressive Congressman David Price to the United States House for over 35 years. Price, a distinguished academic before...
by Paul Stam | Apr 27, 2022 | Politics |
Was the pistol permit law of 1919 an important part of “Jim Crow” efforts to deny access to arms for African Americans? That is not the real story. Public weapons possession was generally prohibited in England since the Statute of Northampton (1328) which...
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