By Lambert Strether of Corrente

Patient readers, I apologize for being slow. I just bit off more than I could chew! Still, I hope the conclusion has merit. –lambert

Hurricane Helene was a brutal force. Taking loss of power as a proxy for damage, this map from PowerOutage.us shows how bad it was:

Red is bad. That’s a lot of red. In this post, I’m going to examine the Helene’s effects on Western North Carolina (WNC) only, and not other states in Helene’s path, partly because my academic family had a connection with Duke, and so I have childhood memories of the state, but mostly because the relationship between topography, demography, voting patterns, and the impact of Helene presents attractive possibilities for political analysis of a critical swing state that I did not see elsewhere (analysis that may apply to other Appalachian states, but I don’t have time to

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