GOP accuses NC Dems of "Racial insensitivity" over Vance/Aycock Dinner

Hmmmn, you decide. (You may need to create account at News and Observer).

Oh yeah, and Harriet Miers' spiritual advisor Barry McCarty did some political work in NC.

McCarty, as a close ally of Helms, was the presiding officer at the 1984 State Republican convention. After the convention voted to expel reporters for The News & Observer, McCarty said from the podium: "The cancer has been surgically removed."