On this edition of the CoastLine Candidate Interviews, we meet the two people in the race for North Carolina Senate District 9. This district covers most of New Hanover County, with the exception of a small patch in downtown Wilmington, which is part of Brunswick County Senator Bill Rabon’s District 8. In North Carolina’s 9 th District, 80% of residents are white, 13% are black, and the rest of the population breaks out into multiple ethnicities, Hispanic, and Asian. 36% of the voters are