Biden lost the Tar Heel state to Donald Trump by just 1.4 percentage points in 2020, and a Democrat at the top of the ticket hasn’t managed to turn North Carolina blue since Barack Obama did in 2008. Now Biden’s team sees opportunity in 2024 amid a fresh abortion ban, a contentious, expensive gubernatorial race and steady population growth that has ballooned urban and suburban areas.
Not exactly southern, but I definitely get similar vibes.
I live in the suburbs of Portland, and one of my neighbors has a “Let’s go Brandon” banner in front of his house.
He’s such a pleasant fellow, he likes to talk about how the War of Northern aggression unfairly targeted independent business owners that just happened to own slaves in the south and how the world would be a better place if the South had won.