North Carolina’s post-2010 Republican legislature enacted far-reaching disenfranchising policies

Evidence

Since 2010, while many people—especially black people—were still reeling from the 2008 recession/depression, Republicans eliminated Medicaid coverage for half a million North Carolinians, passed a voter-ID law designed to disenfranchise primarily African American voters, transferred $90 million from public schools to voucher schools and cut pre-K for 30,000 children, passed a law requiring women about to have an abortion to listen to the heartbeat of the fetus, repealed the earned income tax credit for 900,000 people, and constitutionally banned gay marriage. North Carolina Republicans had declared war. They represented clear examples of those who hold a view of government that hardens hearts and reinforces racial habits. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 522

Categorization

• XREF: Dates the book’s post-Ferguson/post-Obama moment; the legislative agenda listed reads as a catalogue of what value-gap governance looks like in practice. — connects to: Aggressive gerrymandering gives North Carolina Republicans supermajority power in a purple state — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 78; North Carolina exemplifies plutocratic rule despite near-even party demographics — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 81