The Corner is following the back and forth between the New York Times and North Carolina. My only comment:  I doubt any member of the New York Times editorial board has ever been to a demolition derby. 

On July 9, the New York Times editorial page portentously announced “The Decline of North Carolina.” “The editors warned that ever since last November, when Republicans won
the governor’s mansion and both legislative houses for the first time
since Reconstruction, the government of the Tar Heel state has become “a
demolition derby, tearing down years of progress in public education,
tax policy, racial equality in the courtroom and access to the ballot.”

The response from North Carolina.

…..Although, your “demolition derby” of hyperbole did miss the mark on our
legislative agenda. The voter ID laws we’re “rushing” through have
actually been in the works since January. The convicted death row
inmates you defend – those guilty of some of our state’s most egregious,
violent crimes – already have an avenue to prove discrimination, one
that doesn’t rely on faulty political science research. What was it, exactly, about North Carolina that you found so
“farsighted”? Was it double-digit unemployment? Horrendous dropout
rates? Declining wages? The highest taxes in the Southeast?