President Joe Biden hopes to flip North Carolina away from Republicans and provide breathing room in case the GOP nabs a swing state that Democrats won in 2020.
However, rural voters, who comprise a significant chunk of the state’s electorate, have continued to distance themselves from Democrats.
Out of the state’s 10.4 million people, about 3.5 million are living in rural areas of the state, according to 2020 census data. A March poll conducted by thefound that 62% of voters in rural areas comprising seven battle ground states, including North Carolina, planned to vote for Trump. According to WSJ, Wilson County, a 40% black rural county that voted Democrat in 2020, has seen a decline in Democrat voter registration with a shift to an unaffiliated registration. According to the state’s New Rural Project, an initiative led by Democratic officials, more black Americans in rural North Carolina farming communities might stay home on
Democrats have grown less competitive in “the state’s predominantly white and poor mountainous west,” according to the WSJ, and “there are signs of a growing voter alignment with rural communities,” in the state’s “countrypolitan” counties near Charlotte and Raleigh. Despite growing pessimism towards Democratic support in rural areas, it hasn’t stopped them from making efforts to garner votes. The Democratic Party has hired 60 people in the state and is opening field offices in cities and small towns, including one Monday in Sylva, North Carolina. “It’s going to be a long haul, but rural is worth fighting for,” Anderson Clayton, the chair of North Carolina’s Democratic Party, said.of Biden in the state by 6.6%, according to 538’s running polling average.
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