Thread by @JMilesColeman

This helped Dole in 2008: she lost by 8.5% that year, but improved in swaths of southeastern NC. The dark red swing in Robeson is the Lumbee precincts. White Dems in rural Columbus were drifting away by then, too. Hagan still carried the area, but a pro-R trend was there #ncsen

https://twitter.com/liddydolestan/status/1447593275028815884

it's rare that I do a map that doesn't make Hagan look good, but this probably had more to do with Dole 😅

Plus these two counties would have been Trump +22% last year, so a Dem winning it by 20% looks impressive by today's standards.

This was also one of the few areas where Hagan did worse than Obama in 2008, so very likely some pro-Dole sentiments there.