No Democrat has won the state since Barack Obama, in 2008, but Party strategists are betting that heading to more rural areas could put them over the top.

The reason Kamala Harris keeps visiting North Carolina is made evident in an eye-popping pattern her campaign volunteers have noticed while knocking on doors.What they see are signs of a state growing so rapidly that Asheville's airport is a giant construction site and almost six per cent of the city's residents have moved here from another state in just one year.