Greensboro has a mild progressive streak that’s not too wide but very deep, goes back to Quaker settler roots. Also a large black community and for the south a large Jewish community and they ain’t orthodox. Several good-sized universities too, and that skews things, especially the Quaker-established Guilford College. They’ve managed in the recent past in Greensboro to elect a Republican mayor but there are definite limits to just how outright convervative an elected city official can be and hope to remain in office. Same goes for the US House of Representatives seat long held by the late Republican Howard Cable, a fine man and a beloved Representative who was very cagey about how far he could push things. So, I’m not saying it’s hopeless but we’re not talking a red city here, the whole county has been blue for quite some time.
Coble. Stupid autocorrect.
Thanks for the synopsis, RegulatorCountry.
The electoral mechanics to remove these leftist city council members still stands, if North Carolina is a home rule state. All it takes is starting a removal petition to get the ball rolling. It’s very effective because the recall election comes up quickly, and a motivated patriot base of voters can pull this off.
We did this a number of times in Michigan cities and threw every leftist off the city council.