Today’s Journal editorial cites “new factors” driving childhood poverty in North Carolina, but discusses only one factor in detail:
Advocates of a crackdown on illegal immigration are quick to point out that much of the growth in North Carolina poverty over the past 15 years has been due to poor, Hispanic families slipping into the country. There’s no question about that. The overwhelming poverty of this flood of new people does corrupt our poverty statistics and any comparisons to previous years.
Until the federal government secures our national borders and enforces employment laws to end the enticement to move here, it is unlikely that the state can make a serious dent in poverty rates.
Which is a good lead-in to Rob Christensen’s N&O column on the Wright-Obama NCGOP ad. Disappointing.
For the sake of argument, I’ll cede that the ad is dumb and certainly doesn’t address the fewer degrees of separation state Republicans should be hammering home.
But like Spag, I’m still waiting for someone to tell me what’s so racist about the ad. I’d think a smart guy like Christensen would be able to tell me instead of just blurting out it’s racist before giving us yet another Jesse Helms history lesson. Boring.
