North Carolina - no flipped House seats, but
we broke the Repubs veto proof majority in the state legislature and defeated two state constitutional amendments that would have taken power over the courts from the governor (a Dem) and given it to the legislature, which was going to pack the courts with Repubs if they had passed.
Also, related, we won a Supreme Court seat knocking out an incumbent R that makes the NC Supremes 5-2 Dem and guarantees a Dem majority on the court through at least 2022, extremely important for reapportionment cases since NC has been ordered by the federal courts to reapportion and will have to do so again after the 2020 census. Right now although our electorate is about evenly split between dems and Reps, our congressional delegation is 10-3 Repub due to gerrymandering. The NC supreme court with a Dem majority is crucial to get that straightened out.
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but left there many, many years ago when my dad retired to California in 1965.
When I moved to Nebraska in 1994, the Governor was a Dem and both Senators were Dems. Look what happened! Not long after that, the state turned as red as the football field in Lincoln on a fall Saturday and has stayed that way since.
I moved to blue NC in 2000 and look what the damn Republicans did here after 2010!
If you're a jnix, I must be one, too!
Even though I was very discouraged by FL, TX and GA (where I think the voter suppression changed the outcome of the Governor's race), there were encouraging signs elsewhere across the country. Our time will come here in NC. The pendulum is slowly swinging back.
that should be a priority.
