John Locke Foundation President John Hood discusses his recent work rebutting a liberal “fairy tale” about North Carolina’s recent economic history. Hood offered offered these comments during the Sept. 24, 2014, edition of Time Warner Cable News’ “Capital Tonight.”
North Carolina: Early to the revolution
In early 1776, battle lines in NC had already been drawn between loyalists to the British crown and American patriots. At the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge, these lines burst into the open.