The culture war in North Carolina is playing out in the race for governor

With abortion on the line, a Black conservative provocateur is pitted against the state's center-left Jewish attorney general

In front of a conservative talkshow host two weeks ago, Mark Robinson, North Carolina's Republican candidate for governor, was grousing a bit about being snubbed by the state's Democratic governor on a matter of race.

He talks a lot about diversity, equity and inclusion, but apparently the line for diversity, equity and inclusion stops at the Republican party," Robinson told Lockwood Phillips. Roy Cooper has had several chances to congratulate me on the accomplishment of being the first Black lieutenant governor, and he has never taken it."