Swing between liberal and conservative governorships in North Carolina
Herring sees a swing back and forth between liberal and conservative governorships in North Carolina.
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Oral History Interview with William Dallas Herring, February 14, 1987. Interview C-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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After that Holshouser came in, after Bob Scott, of course. One thing that
interests me in that is that we have alternated between liberal and
conservative governors all the way through my experience. You see Kerr
Scott was a liberal, and Umstead was conservative. Hodges was
progressive, if not liberal, but the Umstead and Hodges years were sort
of melted together. Then, Terry Sanford, liberal, after Hodges, and
after Sanford, Moore was a conservative, and after Moore, Scott was a
liberal. Then a conservative in Holshouser, and after him, Jim Hunt was
a liberal. It just swings and forth.
