DOVER — How do you perceive the “Delaware Way” today?
That’s a question we posed to candidates in our election surveys.
It’s also our Question of the Week for readers.
We’re curious what it means to the people of the First State today.
What does it mean to you?
Has it lost its original vibe?
Have we lost our way?
This editor asked Delaware historian Dick Carter about it Thursday.
“It’s a term that has a very proud and very meaningful history in this state,” he said.
“It is both parties and everybody else coming together to work for the good of the state without worrying unduly about what kind of party this person is or what kind of party that person,” he said.
“When I hear people nowadays using the ‘Delaware Way’ like it’s some kind of dirty term, it just disgusts me.
“The key concept of the Delaware Way is working across the aisle and compromise,” he said. “The two things now that are dirty words are working across the aisle and compromise.”
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Mr. Carter has long been a witness to Delaware politics. He is the chair of the Delaware Heritage Commission and a longtime Delaware senate staffer.