NC is almost 1/4 black and clearly a purple state. No surprise that Tillis is middle-of-the-road. He won in 2020 by <2%.
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/NC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_Senate_election_in_North_Carolina
“NC is almost 1/4 black and clearly a purple state....”
and the cities are almost half black which, along with the white liberals, make the cities dark blue.
“NC is almost 1/4 black and clearly a purple state. No surprise that Tillis is middle-of-the-road. He won in 2020 by <2%.”
The only reason Tillis won in 2020 was his Democrat opponent Cal Cunningham self destructed when it was revealed he was having an extramarital affair. Until that moment Cunningham was leading Tillis in the polls and favored to win.
Next time out Tillis will be begging for votes from the conservative GOP base that now hates him for his treachery. Demographics (liberals moving from the north, baby boomer conservative deaths, and rising numbers of minorities) will make the state even more purple by 2026 when Tillis faces the voters again.