McCrory preaches the prosperity gospel.

• Position: Statewide - Pat McCrory - Statistical data

Gov. Pat McCrory and state Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker are trying to reshape her department by contracting parts of economic recruitment to a nonprofit corporation. Proposed legislation includes defunding the seven regional economic-development commissions and creating eight regional prosperity zones to improve the coordination of state agencies at the regional level. What's the difference? Not much, geographically. But under the new model, the nonprofit would oversee all eight zones to ensure that recruiting and retention strategies that work in one are implemented in the others. "Don't confuse that with all economic development coming out of Raleigh," says Josh Ellis, deputy secretary for communication at Commerce. "But there's serious value in taking a step back and seeing how all this is doing."

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1. Alamance 9.1% 2. Alexander 9.1 3. Alleghany 9.5 4. Anson 10.4 5. Ashe 10.0 6. Avery 10.3 7. Beaufort 10.7 8. Bertie 11.7 9. Bladen 12.0 10. Brunswick 9.6 11. Buncombe 6.8 12. Burke 10.2 13. Cabarrus 8.4 14. Caldwell 10.3 15. Camden 7.9 16. Carteret 8.4 17. Caswell 9.1 18. Catawba 10.2 19. Chatham 6.1 20. Cherokee 11.7 21. Chowan 103 22. Clay 8.8 23. Cleveland 10.0 24. Columbus 11.8 25. Craven 9.8 26. Cumberland 10.0 27. Currituck 5.7 28. Dare 8.9 29. Davidson 9.5 30. Davie 8.7 31. Duplin 9.1 32. Durham 7.1 33. Edgecombe 14.1 34. Forsyth 8.5 35. Franklin 8.4 36. Gaston 9.6 37. Gates 7.1 38. Graham 15.3 39. Granville 9.4 40. Greene 10.7 41. Guilford 9.4 42. Halifax 12.9 43. Harnett 10.1 44. Haywood 8.0 45. Henderson 6.4 46. Hertford 10.4 47. Hoke 9.1 48. Hyde 8.0 49. Iredell 8.9 50. Jackson 9.1 51. Johnston 8.0 52. Jones 8.8 53. Lee 11.0 54. Lenoir 9.7 55. Lincoln 9.5 56...