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I live just up the road in NC and in national elections, voting Dem is a vanity vote, at best. It's meaningless as this state has swung far to the right for decades and there really isn't any GOP candidate they wouldn't elect. As far as black candidates are concerned, Hell, North Carolina has had ONE, a single black elected official to a statewide office, since RECONSTRUCTION. And he lost in 2004.
And lemme tell yall something about women candidates in the south. Elizabeth Dole is barely tolerated by her own party here; for being a woman and for being almost a carpetbagger herself. In order for a woman candidate to be truly successful let alone a Dem woman, she'd have to be 10x fundo-crazier than a man.
