Posted on 08/09/2016 1:54:04 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
CHARLOTTE—The technology workers, accountants and bankers who packed a steamy roof deck for a young professionals’ happy hour here recently shared one thing in common. “People aren’t from here,” said Ryan Apt, a 31-year-old salesman from Oklahoma who moved here last year with his Connecticut-born wife.
So many new residents have streamed into North Carolina in recent years that its electorate is experiencing one of the most dramatic churn rates of any state in the country. A Wall Street Journal analysis of census data shows about 1 in 10 people eligible to cast ballots this fall didn’t live in the state as recently as 2008. Only Florida, California and Texas have drawn more new adult citizens in recent years.
Like Colorado, Virginia and other magnets for outsiders, North Carolina is a battleground state where newcomers could help decide the 2016 presidential election. The Tar Heel state was reliably Republican terrain until Barack Obama in 2008 became the first Democrat to win there in 32 years. Mitt Romney snatched it back for Republicans in 2012, making it perhaps the most closely divided swing state in the country this year.
Polls show Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump running essentially even in North Carolina, a state Mr. Trump would need to preserve his most plausible path to the White House. Mr. Trump went to the retiree mecca and beach town of Wilmington on Tuesday to rally support for his economic plan, and to Fayetteville, home of the U.S. Army’s Fort Bragg, the nation’s biggest military installation.
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Some relatives recently moved from MN to NC.
They wanted less liberals, Muzzies and snow. They love NC.
My son bought a house outside of Asheville in 2009. Originally from Arizona.
My daughter moved to Charlotte a couple of years ago. She’s a conservative, so is her boyfriend.
Sounds like what happened to NH & VA....massive amounts of new people moving in who are not as conservative as the locals. Sort of the same thing that has hurt conservatives in Nevada & Colorado with a lot of people from California moving in and diluting the conservative vote.
And the bizarro part is that as liberals leave California, California gets EVEN MORE LIBERAL.
I don't care how you did it up North.
It’s like a nightmare. I’ve seen what has happened to NH up close & personal....lot of people have flooded the southern part of the state from NJ, NY, MA & other liberal states. Interestingly though, Maine has been trending to the Right, though I’m at a loss as to why that is since they seem to draw their demographics from the same areas as NH has been getting.
Asheville and environs seems to be one of the few places in NC that westerners from dry climates are willing to tolerate. It’s not that the humidity isn’t an issue there, too, but the summers are considerably milder than any other decent-sized city in the state. I’ve had business associates get off a plane here in the Piedmont region and difficulty breathing the hot, humid air.
I moved from CA to Wilmington, NC about 3 years ago. I got tired of CA politics, housing costs, population density. I miss the weather in CA. NC summers are too long and humid for me.
All conservatives welcomed here!
We’re tired of the liberals that have moved into our State.
Yankee contaminants soiling NC...
You realize the same thing happened in California long before, right? When Boston plays the Angels in Anaheim the place is crawling with Red Sox fans.
Everyone on my block is from out of state — NY, MD, ME, CA — and they are ALL liberals. I don’t know how NC managed to elect a Repub governor (historically NC has elected Dem governors), but we did.
Georgia and South Carolina be next. Greenville SC is becoming like a European city.
Post Helms, NC collapses.
It’s amazing how close Charlotte is to SC!
GA has similar situation. Many from the Rust Belt because many jobs in Ga. No jobs in Rust Belt.
And the immigrants to GA have no clue why there are no jobs in the Rust Belt but there are jobs in GA, TX, etc.
Nobody is making an effort to re-educate these immigrants. Unless enlightened, they will make the same mistakes here they made up North.
Yes, GA and SC are already under pending deluge and doom too. That much explain Loveable Lindsey’s popularity.
It’s not new residents to state of American origin I fear, so much as I fear the so called refugees and illegals Barry has been importing.
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