CHARLOTTE, NC — For the third straight presidential election, Donald Trump has won North Carolina. With hundreds of thousands moving to the Tar Heel state in recent years, many of which from more liberal states like California and New York had some believing that would change the landscape of our state, it didn’t says UNC Charlotte political science professor Eric Heberlig. “Just because people are migrating from a blue state doesn’t mean they’re blue voters,” explained Heberlig. Heberlig said it’s not just democrats moving to North Carolina. Many retired republicans moved to the east coast and are more likely to vote. “If you have younger voters who are moving in for jobs, who are typically more democratic, they’re less likely to show up to vote than those older retirees,” Heberlig said. Heberlig said what’s clear is the democrats are losing rural voters. WCCB Charlotte Republican political analyst, Edwin Peacock, talked about it during WCCB’s election coverage Tuesday night. “The Republicans have done a great job of registering voters. So people coming to this state, the numbers are up for Republicans being registered, whether it be urban or rural,” said Peacock. Peacock also believes Harris didn’t do enough to distinguish herself from President Biden. WCCB Charlotte Democratic political analyst, Michael Barnes, pushed back on that. “I think the issue is whether the issues that Democrats have been trumpeting are the issues that people want to hear about,” said Barnes. Heberlig says it was clear what issue people were most interested in. “All the polls we saw from the exit polls last night that a lot of voters that the Democrats hope to get the pro-choice voters,  voted based on the economy rather than than abortion,” explained Heberlig.