I hope you haven't bought into the lamestream media stereotype of Helm's voters being redneck, hillbilly, snake handling, moonshine/beer swilling, racists and homophobes.
No, but I do believe the Media hate Helms and think he is a racist, and all his voters are racists too, and wish fervently that more Yankees with PhDs from Cornell would move down to Tarheel and help the blacks and university liberals make the conservatives move up into the hills and hollers and quit voting, never to be heard from again.
What I've picked up is that liberal Media truly hate some states, and the Carolinas are on that list. South Carolina will never get off the hate-list, not even if they close the Citadel and burn Charleston to the ground. The Yankees might relent on Tarheel, though, if it could....."evolve"..... to put the Helms voters permanently in a corner with nowhere to go.