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I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.

I grew up in a very liberal place.

I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi.

I doubt the people of North Carolina will be content to allow the governor to decide or even unduly influence selecting their senator.

I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do.

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

I grew up in a politically aware household: very civically-minded, good Minnesota liberals.

I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.

I love North Carolina.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.