If unquestionably red, with no doubt about it statewide, is what you’re seeking you’ll only find it in Oklahoma. Every southern state east of the Mississippi is in varying stages of change due to northern influx. Some are just further along than others. Beautiful Ol’ Virginny is now a hopelessly lost cause due to DC metastasizing into northern VA. As the cities in NC grow, their blue influence begins to overwhelm real North Carolina, which remains and always will be red as can be. Tennessee has the same issue with Nashville, for all the crowing about Charlotte being a liberal cesspool you’d hardly know the difference between the two. Georgia? Atlanta’s burst out of it’s usual few counties and threatens to turn the state purple and keep it there. You’re reduced to regions and the best one by far in my opinion is southern Appalachia, so you’re not wide of the mark with the Asheville, NC vicinity, you’re dead center but Asheville has turned into something else politically. Nearby east Tennessee is great, red, red red. Beautiful country. Upstate South Carolina is, too, not quite so deep red but the state as a whole is redder than any southeastern Atlantic state. Given the aforementioned influx, how long will that last, though? Only time will tell. Conservatives need to start having children again, more than just two per married couple.
About fifteen years back I used to do a lot of business in New York State. I was noticing that every year 15 to 20 of my customers were picking-up and moving to North Carolina.
Work out the math on my small sampling, and North Carolina has to be totally overrun by New Yorkers by now.
Everyone has been trying to get me to Tennessee - and I love that state.
Everything is great.. BUT ... the homeschooling laws.
Not to start another argument, but I’m anti-vaccination. I don’t tolerate, and won’t tolerate, any government or authority body making such requirements.
To teach my kids what I want, and to give them the medical treatment that I believe is appropriate. That’s why I can’t do Tennessee.
But thanks for kicking that in ! My parents are moving to Tennessee at some point, and have urged me to come. I was looking at this corner of Appalachia to be somewhat close to our family is all planning to move.
We’ll be moving far, far away from any friends and family. That’s a big decision. They are all in deep communist Connecticut at the moment - which puts us about 2 hours from them. That’s great to visit on the weekends and the such. From here, we’ll never see this family again unless they move down.
I don’t fly (Cost and TSA) and they don’t drive (Because they live in CT and make a ton of money but they are all flat-broke poor). They don’t even visit us here because they have $2000 a month in bills and can’t afford tires on their car.
It’s crazy. The Northeast is crazy. Flat out. There is no reward in living there. The whole state of CT is like Detroit.