This Tuesday, one of the more important US House races is our district. The District runs from South Park Mall, most of South Charlotte and Matthews, then all of the lightly populated counties that border with South Carolina, over to Fayetteville (Home of Fort Bragg).
Mecklenburg County is dominated by the City of Charlotte, increasingly controlled by Democrats, which translates into race. The mayor, city manager, police chief, fire chief and soon to be county sheriff are black. The fear is palpable and didn’t start yesterday.
You may have heard about a school shooting near Matthews NC in the past few days. Why the story is dying quickly nationally is there is no white villain. One black student shot and killed another black student. The school has consciously been made “diverse” by the county, combining poor black and Hispanic children living in apartment complexes with predominantly white upper middle class areas. This has resulted in two things.
The yellow area is Mecklenburg County – almost completely undeveloped. The moment you cross the county line, it becomes wall to wall high density subdivisions who attend Union County schools.
The people in Southern Mecklenburg county are not voting for a Republican preacher, even many moderate Republicans. Mr. Harris won the primary with a huge majority of pro-trump voters in Union County, where Monroe is the biggest city.
If CC was here, he would probably point out that since we are looking at Union County, we won’t see streets in Mecklenburg County. That is true but except in the city of Mathews, there is little development going on. Union County is building a toll road through the county to speed up and accommodate more commutes.
There is hope:
https://BLEXIT.com
Just looked at the map in Real Clear politics for the senate race in Michigan chairman.
All red for John James except the higher density areas. So he looses. Same here in Virginia. NOVA , Virginia Beach, Charlottesville and Richmond. You can’t win as republican in Virginia anymore in a statewide office.
The State House and State senate, are both republican. That’s all we have anymore.
sad.
parrott
Hey Parrott. Yeah, the irony is John James (black conservative) lost mostly in the Detroit/Lansing areas. We voted for him, as did most of northern Michigan.
It seems the ‘racists’ are on the DNC plantation, and don’t want to leave it.
So Mr Harris did win by a little under 2,000 votes. The pattern was very interesting. Absentee and early voting skewed heavily toward Mr McCready, the Democrat who lost. As I suggested, Union County voted heavily for the pro-Trump Baptist minister. The voters in election day voting in South Charlotte broke roughly 50/50, but the solid Union County turnout more than offset the Democrats who voted early in South Charlotte and west Fayetteville.
Of course, electing a Republican House member means that our district has no clout in DC for at least the next two years. The three Republicans on the Mecklenburg County board of commissioners were all voted out. Republicans did not even put up a candidate for Sheriff. Our governor is a Democrat. Republicans still control the NC legislature, but with a smaller margin that is not veto proof.