North Carolina Politics

About this site and section: New South Politics provides political news analysis and commentary from Matt O’Hern, who has worked with political campaigns in the southeast, including Alabama, since 2002. O’Hern spent the first four years of the 2000’s in Birmingham as a student at Samford University. He graduated in 2004 with a degree in journalism and a minor in political science. O’Hern’s political campaign experience includes roles ranging from micro-targeted Presidential advertising campaign management to door-to-door canvassing in neighborhoods. O’Hern’s professional experience includes news reporting and editing for various organizations and news publications in Alabama and Florida since 2002. During his childhood and teenage years, North Carolina was an unofficial second home for O’Hern, who stayed in Asheville, Balsam, Boone and other western cities each summer. O’Hern created New South Politics to cover remarkable trends in political news impacting southern states. O’Hern’s other site, 2024Field.com, was created to inform and update voters on both sides of the aisle about the latest developments surrounding sitting and former politicians who have shown indications of interest in a 2024 candidacy.