Lasted?? Past tense? Where'd you get that? It's over?
Don't think so -- as witness the joke at Judy Woodruff's Election Night table in 2008, about North Carolina and their "Dukes of Hazzard" voters, ha ha, who fortunately (halcyon days! tra-la and halloo!) are losing their state to snotty Up East parvenues who act like they now own the place and plan to drive the Tarheels back up into their hollows and mountain forests like they were Montagnards.
I hear you. There are now fewer North Carolinians born in NC than born elsewhere. It's sad to see; not even to mention the traffic jams throughout the Triangle.