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Entry: Keeping Up With Walter Jones Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/keeping_up_with_walter_jones#26074 Post contents: Mr. Antle, Lest I give the wrong impression, I did enjoy very much your essay which was very insightful. I hope you didn't mind me adding a bit about the politics of eastern North Carolina. The old First District (represented for many years by Walter Jones Sr. as a Democrat) included much of far eastern and northeastern North Carolina. The (new) Third District includes several counties and portions of counties that were once in that district, as well as some counties and portions of counties that were in the old Third District. The present Third district is a majority white district, and contains in their entirety the former First District counties of Dare and Carteret (both tending Republican in recent years), Currituck, Hyde, and Tyrell. Additionally, it includes large portions of the formerly First District counties of Pitt (Walter Jones' county), Craven, and Beaufort. Counties from the old Third District that were added include: Onslow (where Camp Lejeune is located), Lenoir (portion), Jones (portion), Wayne (portion), and Wilson (portion). Walter Jones' home county is Pitt, which he represented for years in the North Carolina General Assembly as state senator. It was also the base for his father, Walter Sr. Sent at: 2008 07 06