[2] The populist Farmers' Alliance had grown deep roots in Carolina soil, exemplified by the presence some 2,200 local organizations in the state with a total membership of 90,000 by 1890.

[1] The fabric and clothing manufacturing industry also began to expand dramatically, with North Carolina mills producing half of the nation's cotton yarn by the early 20th Century.

The first SP nominee for President was labor leader Eugene V. Debs and he received votes in North Carolina several times.

With the specter of fascism growing in Europe, this ultra-left political line of the international Communist movement began to change in 1934, with a move made towards a new Popular Front policy.

[16] Crouch proposed joint action on a range of political issues, including support of unemployment insurance, repeal of the state's regressive sales tax, legal defense of jailed strikers and other political prisoners, and monthly meetings between Socialists and Communists in North Carolina.

[18] The Socialist organizing effort was thereby attenuated somewhat and Communist momentum improved; no united front action would never develop, however.

[18] In January 1938, Socialist Party leader Norman Thomas spoke on campus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

[20] Again as a write-in, the Socialist Party presidential candidate in 2004, Walt Brown, received about 300 votes in North Carolina.