{"id":1548794,"date":"2022-07-11T13:49:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T17:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1548794"},"modified":"2022-07-11T13:49:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T17:49:23","slug":"reshaped-north-carolina-congressional-district-highlights-suburban-rural-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reshaped-north-carolina-congressional-district-highlights-suburban-rural-split\/","title":{"rendered":"Reshaped North Carolina Congressional District Highlights Suburban-Rural Split"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freshaped-north-carolina-congressional-district-highlights-suburban-rural-split%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1548794&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>One close and hard-fought congressional race in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-north-carolina\">North Carolina<\/a> will signify how the election fares across the state and perhaps elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>It pits blue-trending suburban voters outside Raleigh against red-voting rural ones dominated by Trump loyalists.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran Republican strategist Paul Shumaker said the 13th District contest between Democratic state senator Wiley Nickel and Republican political newcomer Bo Hines will be won or lost with suburban female voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s two districts rolled into one,\u201d agreed Morgan Jackson, a Democratic strategist who, like Shumaker, has deep experience in North Carolina politics. \u201cIt\u2019s the closest, most swing race in North Carolina. It\u2019s truly a jump ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The North Carolina congressional map has had three different looks in 18 months and faces a court-ordered fourth next year. Virtually every district features a new look.<\/p>\n<p>Raleigh\u2019s suburbs, like Cary and Holly Springs, feature massive growth and college-educated voters. \u201cThey\u2019re getting bluer and bluer each cycle,\u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n<p>Rural areas in North Carolina, Jackson said, aren\u2019t growing because there are no jobs. The countryside\u2019s average age keeps increasing, and its college-educated voters are declining.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no industry moving in,\u201d partly because companies can\u2019t find educated workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up in the rural part of the state,\u201d agreed Shumaker. \u201cIf you went to college, most went to Charlotte, Raleigh, Wilmington, Asheville, and you didn\u2019t come back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Candidates supported by former president Donald Trump have a strong advantage among Republican primary voters, said Michael Bitzer, a political science professor at Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard for a non-Trumpist candidate in today\u2019s North Carolina Republican Party politics,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina differs for Republicans from neighboring Georgia, where establishment Republicans in the large Atlanta metro area provide a counterweight to rural Trump supporters. North Carolina\u2019s biggest cities, Charlotte and Raleigh, aren\u2019t as big.<\/p>\n<p>Each candidate epitomizes where<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One close and hard-fought congressional race in North Carolina will signify how the election fares across the state and perhaps elsewhere. It pits blue-trending suburban voters outside Raleigh against red-voting rural ones dominated by Trump loyalists. Veteran Republican strategist Paul Shumaker said the 13th District contest between Democratic state senator Wiley Nickel and Republican political [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}