The climate in Raleigh NC is ideal. Not too hot and not too cold. Lots of Yankees live in the Triangle, a liberal mecca.
If I ran liberal Amazon North Carolina would be ideal. It is also more or less centrally located for the East Coast
My bet is that this is more about how much of the state’s tax money NC was willing to cough up than it was about the climate.
I beg to differ. That area gets every single kind of bad weather and extreme weather that there is. More so than Minnesota. More so than Texas. 100% humidity for weeks in a row, snow that brings traffic to a halt for a full day, ice and sleet that bring branches and powerlines down and kills your power (and heater), plenty of rain from about half of the named hurricanes every year, you name it. I don't count tornadoes as weather myself.
That's in the last three years, most of them multiple times.
Cary is the containment area for relocating Yankees. Weather is usually nice however there is the occasional hurricane and 1/2 inch of snow that shuts the whole place down.