Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute, author of Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, discusses the changes within Belmont and Fishtown, the names he’s assigned to typical upper-class and working-class American communities. Murray offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 501).
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.