But....I know NC-11. I know it very well. She won public office, sure, but in Buncombe county, not Haywood or Henderson or Macon or Transylvania or McDowell counties. Huge difference. HUGE difference. They'll say she's "Asheville" because she checks every single box for being "Asheville". To many in NC-11, that's a pejorative. Most folks not familiar with the area might not get that. Asheville, sometimes referred to tongue in cheek as the "Paris of the South" or the "San Francisco of the South", is a stark anomaly. Culturally, it and its smaller sister, Boone, NC, have only geography in common with the rest of western NC. Beyond that, they're as different as San Francisco and East Kentucky.
Outside of the Asheville bubble, they're religious in the extreme and died in the wool conservo-nut. I'm talking ban book fundy. In the county I once lived, recently the locals were all in an uproar over a local playhouse doing Shakespeare for local high school kids. I mean in a fire and brimstone, ban it, burn books, frothing uproar. Freaking Shakespeare for god's sake. In the 21st century. THAT'S how politically and culturally fucked up most of NC-11 is. To be honest, I think most there deserve Meadows and now Cawthorn. They mirror the mindset and mentality of much of the NC-11 populace. All these years later, my heart still breaks for our fellows down there. Not just progressives, but middle of the road Dems.
Moe Davis was uber qualified, retired USAF colonel, a middle of the road Dem by anyone's standards and even he couldn't beat an uber UNQUALIFIED, barely literate, little Nazi. Jasmine has my undying support, but realistically, she doesn't stand a chance. I'd bet the farm NC-11 goes for Cawthorn in significant numbers in 2022.
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