Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 56 Mayor Pat McCrory 50 Pat McCrory 50 Jesse Helms 49 Sen. Jesse Helms 48 Rep. Mel Watt 48 segregationist 48 McCrory 47 Elizabeth Dole 47 Artur Davis 47 Sen. Elizabeth Dole 46 Shirley Chisholm 46 Greensboro 46 Kay Hagan 46 racial segregation 46 Richard Burr 45 UNC Charlotte 45 North Carolinian 45 Howard Coble 44 Beverly Perdue 44 Foxx 44 blacks 44 Winston Salem 44 Charles Meeker 44 Karen Handel 44 NCCU 43 UNC Chapel Hill 43 Rep. Sue Myrick 43 Strom Thurmond 43 Jesse Jackson 43 Majette 43 Sheheen 43 North Carolina 43 Zell Miller 43 Sonny Perdue 43 Kweisi Mfume 43 Klansman 42 Perdue 42 Julian Bond 42 Winston-Salem/Forsyth County 42 Black Caucus 42 Charlotte 42 Raleigh 42 Mike Easley 42 Michael Dukakis 41 Rep. Artur 41 Sen. Kay Hagan 41 Spelman College 41 Mayor Willie Herenton 41 Chapel Hill 41 NAACP 41 Freedom Rides 41 Kannapolis 41 Easley 41 Douglas Wilder 41 Bob Corker 41 Jimmy Carter 40 Sessoms 40 racially divisive 40 Shuler 40 Gov. Ronnie Musgrove 40 racially tinged 40 Ernie Fletcher 40 Tougaloo College 40 UNC CH 39 Ku Klux Klan 39 Student Nonviolent Coordinating 39 Clyburn 39 segregationists 39 Max Cleland 39 Ward Connerly 39 Faison 39 Nathan Deal 39 Haley Barbour 39 Sen. Max Cleland 39 Freedom Riders 39 desegregation 39 Ray Nagin 39 Rep. Cynthia McKinney 39 Jim Crow 39 Gantt 39 Thurmond 39 Erskine Bowles 39 Basnight 39 DN.C. 39 Carolina 39 Mfume 39 poet Maya Angelou 39 Newt Gingrich 38 Bull Connor 38 HBCU 38 Greensboro NC 38 Mumpower 38 Asheboro 38 Moseley Braun 38 Mecklenburg County 38 Reverend Jeremiah Wright 38 Southerner 38 Gov. Bev Perdue 38 Lawton Chiles 38 Herenton 38 Gen. Colin Powell