As a person born in North Carolina and lived there til I was 30, the hand-wringing over North Carolina Republicans by the Democrats, a party that ran the state pretty much consecutively from the end of Reconstruction 130 or so years onward, is amusing. It's one corrupt party telling the other party "you're corrupt". Sorry, I actually took a class on North Carolina history.
If you are so hot on North Carolina history, you should know that (unlike in places like WI and MI) the Republicans' shenanigans are nothing new. The only new thing is they have an R next to their name instead of D. The two parties switched-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_1898
