What’s amazing is that native-born North Carolinians are in the minority in that state now. My friends there are always complaining about the New Yawkers moving down to work in Research Triangle, Raleigh, Charlotte, etc. Also, a large warehouse business down there has welcomed a colony of Hmong people who were displaced during the Vietnam era, and there are plenty of Hispanic newcomers as well.
I guess this issue is just a non-starter at the election booth.
I spend a good bit of time in Charlotte over the last year and although I knew its boomtown status (albeit past its prime) meant a lot of outsiders drawn by economics, I was dismayed at the lack of honey-dipped Southern tones among the public. I was even more dismayed at the surfeit of obnoxious Yankee accents and attitudes.
We lived near A_Sheville until a few years ago. The large health-care industry there became over run by short-haired ladies from up nawth. The place advertises being the gayest small city in the world.
We left, moved near New Market and love it here in Virginia. Our ancestors were pioneers who came to the west before the American revolution. The Triad, Triangle, Charlotte, and the Wilmington area are over run with Strange folks.
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If I may comment....
I'm a Dammed Yankee in NC, and I wouldn't change one thing about it. But then again, I'm not from NYC. :-)
Also, regarding the Vietnamese - my old neighborhood was mostly Montagnard. Everyone I talked to was more conservative than me. Most all of them were small businessmen and women, I suppose that fosters conservatism.
And finally, there was an extended Vietnamese family who lived directly across the street from me. Cute kids, and some of the most considerate and polite that I've encountered. The grandpa was a pleasant very old gentleman who didn't speak much English. He had come to America from Vietnam by way of China, and was fond of saying, "Vietnam not so good. China not so good. America #1 !!!"
Sez me, we could use more people like that.