Christopher A. Cooper

Christopher A. Cooper is Robert Lee Madison Distinguished Professor and Director of the Haire Institute for Public Policy at Western Carolina University. He is the co-author of The Resilience of Southern Identity: Why the South Still Matters in the Minds of its People, co-editor of The New Politics of North Carolina and author of the forthcoming Anatomy of a Purple State: A North Carolina Politics Primer (all from UNC Press), as well as more than 50 peer reviewed journal articles. He has served as an expert witness on elections and voting rights cases and is a frequent source for journalists seeking expertise or a snappy quote about American, southern, and North Carolina politics. He once had a tostada named after him at a local Mexican restaurant. That restaurant later burned down. These facts are likely unrelated.