[RockinRight]

How do solidly red states like NC still elect Democratic legislatures??

[mlc9852]

Cause the Republicans haven't given us any good choices.

[Phantom Lord]

How do solidly red states like NC still elect Democratic legislatures??

"My grandpappy would roll over in his grave if I ever voted for a republican." --NC Democratic voter

[Clock King]

Because a lot of Left Coastists and NE Leftists move here to the cities (Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte, UNC-Chapel Hill) for high tech jobs (Research Triangle Park,et.al. -- hey, that's what I did) and are changing the character of the place.

[Deport Billary]

NC has a Democrat majority because the traitor Richard Morgan agreed to draw the districts in their favor. Republicans outpolled Democrats 50-48 in the state senate and 51-47 in the house.

[Doe Eyes]

How do solidly red states like NC still elect Democratic legislatures??

There are serious problems with our form of government.

[BelegStrongbow]

I suspect that it's a leftover from when Dems were patriotic and truly populist. Old habits die hard, especially in the South, but it does begin to look like recognizing who gets the power if local moderate Dems are elected (it ain't local moderate Dems, even if they do get re-elected for decades).

And of course, the creeping Marxism of Northern and Western DemocraticParty members is infecting the locals as well.

This proposal is simply saying "Hey, everybody around us are losing their minds. We need to lose ours, too. We don't want to look different."

It's just a dumb idea, with the added fillip of institutionalizing immorality. Just what a religious red state does not need.

Thanks for reading,
Beleg

[THE MODERATE]

Here is a link that may answer you question,

http://www.carolinajournal.com/jhdailyjournal/display_jhdailyjournal.html?id=1923

You must understand for all intensive purposes there is no Republican caucus in the NC House. Yes there are 57 members in the house who are Republicans, but they do not caucus together on a regular basis because of infighting. The infighting has gotten so bad that in 2004 the GOP spent more time recruiting candidates to unseat Republicans in the primary then Democrats in the General Election. The power is given to minority Leader Joe Kiser and Speaker Pro-Tem Richard Morgan, they represent the more moderate faction of the party. The conservative are lead by former minority leader Leo Daughtry, who was unseated as the GOP leader in 2003, the current Republican leadership has refused to grant Daughtry and some of his followers a real office or any paid staff. Anything these Representatives get comes from the Democrats not from there own. These members who the leadership has written out tend to be the more conservative of the group.

As for the 2004 Governors race, the GOP had things go so bad the the then State party chairman, Bill Cobey, who supposed to find a good candidate, declared all the announced candidates could not win and he resigned and ran himself. Cobey lost the primary but the damage was done and the party was unable to recover.