What gives?
The demographics of NC have changed a lot in the last two election cycles. Tons of people escaping the NE, CA and central America have settle there. Guess how they’re voting?
North Carolina can’t seem to find a decent GOP candidate to run for Governor. As a result, it’s been held by democrats for as long as I know... and they’ve been going further to the left (Hunt - Easley - Purdue) ever since I’ve kept track. Of course, this also tracks with higher taxation, job elimination, and a Mexican invasion.
What has happened to North Carolina in the last 10 or so years? It has one Democrat Senator, and a Republican Senator who - even if is a conservative - is practically invisible. Of it’s 13 House districts, 8 (I think) are held by Democrats. And, it seems that there’s a flaming leftist in the Governor’s mansion.
What gives?
easy, n.y.& n.j. moved there...
You would be shocked at how many people from the Northeast have come to retire in NC. Not only that, but sometimes their children follow them and their grandchildren all go to college in NC for the most part. The political demographics of NC have shifted big time to the left in the last 15 years.
Those hillbillys love free stuff, who gives out more free stuff than Democrats?
It is the immigration from Communist states in the NE- they live in big suburbs around Charlotte, Raleigh/Durham, etc. Due to a big disparity in economies of scale, someone in New Jersey can sell their hut, come here, and suddenly become upper middle class with a McMansion. Add to that the influx of West Virginians in the western end of the state (people wedded to what the government can dish out) and our own native African-American contingents (in the pocket of the Dem machine, never to be brought out) and you see that the situation is not ideal.