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Entry: Keeping Up With Walter Jones Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/keeping_up_with_walter_jones#26028 Post contents: Walter Sr. represented the First Congressional District and was a Democrat. Walter Jr. ran in the Democratic primary to succeed him after he died in 1992 but lost to Eva Clayton. Walter Jr. became a Republican and was elected in the Third District in 1994. Whether the district lines had been redrawn to include his father's old constituents, I don't know. Certainly, a lot of Jones's Republican critics don't like his opposition to free trade. But the party, and even the economic conservative groups, have been fairly forgiving of congressmen from rural, manufacturing, and textile districts who vote against trade deals. Sent at: 2008 07 24