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Some states have an official "village" designation that has a legal definition, but NC does not. A community can call itself whatever it wants in NC. https://www.nclm.org/advocacy/how-nc-cities-work
Village as a concept is certainly not limited to New England or the Northeast (not sure which you meant by NE). There were lots of mill villages in North Carolina in the textile heyday. I think Saxapahaw is the epitome of a village in North Carolina. It doesn't even have a stoplight, but has two or three churches, two schools, 2 or 3 restaurants, a general store, the restored mill with a fabulous venue for music, weddings, and other events, the mill village houses, and restored apartments, a post office. However, I don't think it's what a conservative yankee is looking for as it has a bit of a hippie meets rural NC feel.
For our conservative Yankee friend, if you're still reading I think you might like to check out Hickory NC or maybe the Greenville SC area. (Neither are villages, btw). Hickory is pretty conservative politically and socially, but would put you close to Charlotte or the mountains for weekend getaways or special events.
Greenville is growing more than Hickory, but still leans conservative although probably not quite as conservative as Hickory. You can look up past election results. I do think SC is a little more conservative than NC.
We actually live in the village neighborhood - that is why I phrased it that way....referring to the area around the shopping/dining/Carolina Hotel - that is the Village of Pinehurst. I love the area and wanted them to know that if I was moving to Pinehurst I would buy in The Village....does that make sense? I don’t refer to the whole city as TheVillage of Pinehurst...just one area.....
Old NC democrats is reason, republican registration is growing(albeit slowly) while Democratic is shrinking in the state.
Unless something has dramatically changed in the last 3 1/2 months, the voters who are unaffiliated with a party are the growing group of voters in North Carolina. Both Democrats and Republicans have lost some of their percentage share of total voters.
I used to be a Republican until they went too liberal on immigration years ago. Now I'm happily an unaffiliated mixture of Conservatarian and Populist...
Old NC democrats is reason, republican registration is growing(albeit slowly) while Democratic is shrinking in the state.
More people are going unaffiliated so looking at just party registrations doesn't show the full story. I think people are getting tired of this whole "politics is turning into a sport" game, where putting party before country is getting us nowhere as a unified nation.
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Lots leaving the political parties
