Question: Since what year have voters leaned Republican in the state where the Governor during the Civil War died?

After the Civil War began, Governor Zebulon Baird Vance ordered the construction of breastworks around the city as protection from Union troops. During General Sherman's Carolinas Campaign, Raleigh was captured by Union cavalry under the command of General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick on April 13, 1865. As the Confederate cavalry retreated west, the Union soldiers followed, leading to the nearby Battle of Morrisville. The city was spared significant destruction during the War, but due to the economic problems of the post-war period and Reconstruction, with a state economy based on agriculture, it grew little over the next several decades. <SEP> Senator. A prolific writer, Vance became one of the most influential Southern leaders of the Civil War and postbellum periods. As a leader of the "New South", Vance favored the rapid modernization of the southern economy, railroad expansion, school construction, and reconciliation with the North. Zebulon Baird Vance (May 13, 1830 – April 14, 1894) was a Confederate military officer in the American Civil War, the 37th and 43rd Governor of North Carolina, and U.S. <SEP> North Carolina's party loyalties have undergone a series of important shifts in the last few years: While the 2010 midterms saw Tar Heel voters elect a bicameral Republican majority legislature for the first time in over a century, North Carolina has also become a Southern swing state in presidential races. In the 1990s, Democrat Bill Clinton came within a point of winning the state in 1992 and also only narrowly lost the state in 1996. In the early 2000s, Republican George W. Bush easily won the state by over 12 points, but by 2008, demographic shifts, population growth, and increased liberalization in heavily populated areas such as the Research Triangle, Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Fayetteville, and Asheville, propelled Barack Obama to victory in North Carolina, the first Democrat to win the state since 1976. Since Southern Democrat Jimmy Carter's comfortable victory in the state in 1976, the state had consistently leaned Republican in presidential elections until Democrat Barack Obama narrowly won the state in 2008. In 2012, North Carolina was again considered a competitive swing state, with the Democrats even holding their 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. However, Republican Mitt Romney ultimately eked out a 2-point win in North Carolina, the only 2012 swing state that Obama lost, and one of only two states (along with Indiana) to flip from Obama in 2008 to the GOP in 2012. <SEP> in the early 21st century, republican voters control most of the state, especially in the more rural and suburban areas outside of the cities; democratic strength is mostly confined to the urban cores of the four major cities, and is particularly strong in the cities of nashville and memphis. the latter area includes a large african-american population. historically, republicans had their greatest strength in east tennessee before the 1960s. tennessee's 1st and 2nd congressional districts, based in the tri-cities and knoxville, respectively, are among the few historically republican districts in the south. those districts' residents supported the union over the confederacy during the civil war; they identified with the gop after the war and have stayed with that party ever since. the 1st has been in republican hands continuously since 1881, and republicans (or their antecedents) have held it for all but four years since 1859. the 2nd has been held continuously by republicans or their antecedents since 1859. <SEP> in 1986, arizona governor bruce babbitt, a democrat, created a paid state mlk holiday in arizona by executive order just before he left office, but in 1987, his republican successor evan mecham, citing an attorney general's opinion that babbitt's order was illegal, reversed babbitt's decision days after taking office. later that year, mecham proclaimed the third sunday in january to be ``martin luther king jr. / civil rights day ''in arizona, albeit as an unpaid holiday. in 1990, arizona voters were given the opportunity to vote on giving state employees a paid mlk holiday. that same year, the national football league threatened to move super bowl xxvii, which was planned for arizona in 1993, if the mlk holiday was voted down. in the november election, the voters were offered two king day options: proposition 301, which replaced columbus day on the list of paid state holidays, and proposition 302, which merged lincoln's and washington's birthdays into one paid holiday to make room for mlk day. both measures failed to pass, with only 49% of voters approving prop 302, the more popular of the two options; although some who voted`` no'' on 302 voted ``yes ''on prop 301. consequently, the state lost the chance to host super bowl xxvii, which was subsequently held at the rose bowl in pasadena, california. in a 1992 referendum, the voters, this time given only one option for a paid king day, approved state - level recognition of the holiday.