The Making of a Southern Democracy: North Carolina Politics from Kerr Scott to Pat McCrory

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335 Notes prologue 1. For discussions of North Carolina’s political evolution, see Alexander Heard, A TwoParty South? (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1952); Burton J. Hendrick, The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1922), 64–101; Christopher A. Cooper and H. Gibbs Knotts, “Traditionalism and Progressivism in North Carolina,” in The New Politics of North Carolina, ed. Christopher A. Cooper and H. Gibbs Knotts (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008), 1–10. For a discussion of the contradictory nature of North Carolina politics, see Rob Christensen, The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics, 2nd ed. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010). 2. See Alexander Lamis, “North Carolina: The Clash of Polar Forces—Hunt vs. Helms,” in The Two-Party South (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 131–34; Paul Luebke, Tar Heel Politics (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990). For a comprehensive and insightful running portrait of North Carolina politics from the 1980s to the 2000s, see the publications of the University of North Carolina’s Howard W. Odum Institute for Social Sciences (http://www.irss.unc.edu/odum/home2.jsp). Under the titles Inside Politics and later DataNet, the institute delved into state politics in a language that could be appreciated by both statisticians and laypersons. These publications were spearheaded by Thad L. Beyle, with Peter Harkins and Ferrell Guillory also playing major roles. 3. V. O. Key Jr., Southern Politics in State and Nation (New York: Knopf, 1949), 205–6. 4. For a similar viewpoint, see Michael Barone, Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan (New York: Free Press, 1990), xiii, xiv. 5. William A. Link, North Carolina: Change and Tradition in a Southern State (Wheeling , Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 2009); Milton Ready, The Tar Heel State: A History of North Carolina (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005). For thorough studies that take the traditional approach, see Hugh Talmage Lefler and Albert Ray Newsome, North Carolina: The History of a Southern State (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1954); William S. Powell, North Carolina through Four Centuries (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989). 6. See esp. David S. Cecelski and Timothy B. Tyson, eds., Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), 254. See also Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996). 7. Luebke, Tar Heel Politics. 8. Christensen, Paradox of Tar Heel Politics. 9. Cooper and Knotts, New Politics. 10. Author’s review of National Weather Service data. 336 / Notes to Pages 4–10 11. Look Homeward Angel was published on October 18, 1929, and created such an uproar in Asheville that Wolfe did not visit again until 1937. See Ted Mitchell, “Thomas Wolfe,” in The North Carolina Century: Tar Heels Who Made a Difference, 1900–2000, ed. Howard E. Covington Jr. and Marion A. Ellis (Charlotte: Levine Museum of the New South; Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 110–13. 12. In the early 2000s, Charlotte claimed the title of America’s second-largest financial center, trailing only New York in number of bank headquarters. But many other activities contribute to making a city a financial center, including stock and commodities markets, total bank deposits, and brokerage houses. By that standard, Chicago might well be the second largest in the country. Local boosterism aside, Charlotte had claim to being one of the four or five major U.S. financial centers. 13. There is debate over whether the Deep South/Peripheral South distinction remains valid. By many economic and political standards, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana are still states apart from the nation and from much of the rest of the South. To a lesser extent, so are South Carolina and Georgia, although migration from other parts of the country and world are reshaping those two states as well as North Carolina and Virginia. 14. Key, Southern Politics, 5–10, 215–18. While conservative on racial issues, North Carolina’s Black Belt counties at times supported economically liberal candidates in primaries. 15. Robert W. Winston, “Aycock: His People’s Genius,” Founders’ Day Address, University of North Carolina, October 12, 1933, University of North Carolina Alumni Review, November 1933, S4. 16. R. D. W. Connor and Clarence Poe, “Universal Education: The Unfinished Speech,” The Life...