MSheridan, on 14 March 2016 - 07:26 PM, said:
North Carolina is a whole 'nother animal. Like every other state in the Old South, it's got more than its share of racists, but it's not as endemic and the state does have some liberal enclaves.
NC is most definitely a "mixed bag" when it comes to its politics. Daughter Dear sees all of these at her small college campus [1] NE of Charlotte. The mountains, the attitude is "leave us the hell ALONE!", and definitely SoCon -- AND the Confederate Battle Flag waves PROUD. Central, near Charlotte (home of the HQ of Bank of America and of NASCAR), Bankers' Paradise, NASCAR stop, and really SoCon. As GV pointed out, Raleigh/Durham (Research Triangle, and home of SAS), the Biotechies and other tech-type entrepreneurs hold sway and trend liberal. Outer Banks, a mixture of developers wanting to profit off the land and the hippie remnants/new-wave eco-tourism promoters who want to preserve it, so trend liberal on environmental issues. It's been pretty red in recent state-level elections, much to my liberal friends' consternation.
GV, funny thing, one of my old grad-school compatriots has settled in the W-S area & is hard-core liberal. His flirtation with local politics was brief.
[1] A couple of her college compatriots were silent protesters at the recent NC Trump rally and got an eyeful.
Edited by Bact PhD, 14 March 2016 - 08:50 PM.
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