How does NC end up with a ‘Rat Governator?
To many Northeasterners migrating to NC therefore making it a 50/50 state.
For example: the town of Cary stands for Containment Area for Retired Yankees.
Asheville - Toe River Valley - Blowing Rock. Beautiful scenery, nutcase locals. Take the Toe River Art Tour sometime if you doubt that.
She killed E-Verify in NC, she needs the votes, obviously.
It's not all Yankees pulling the Rat lever at election time.
Since 1879, NC has had Rat Governors for all except 2 brief four year periods. It's a tradition. The last GOP Governor was 1973-1977. This year we elected the first GOP Legislature since 1898.
I will admit though a lot of Liberal Yankees are stinking the place up - just like they are stinking every other place up. I say that as a transplanted Yankee!
But if the Bamster thinks he is winning NC in 2012 like he did in 2008 he has another think coming - unless Ron Paul runs 3rd Party. Then he might win.
1. Some old folks with faint memories of their beloved FDR.
2. “African-Americans”
3. Yankee transplants oozing into cesspools like Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham.
Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill.
She rode zero’s scrote hairs.
It won’t be this sorry beotch’s fault if
Zero loses NC...It will be all Zero’s...We just hope Bev goes with him...I think she will. This last 4 years has been a pure disaster.
North Carolina is a very conservative state, in fact so conservative it is still fighting the War Between the States.
So, while one’s grandmother may be as conservative as you can get socially and economically, she can still run the local Democratic Machine without seeing a real disparity (Clinton aside - FDR did save this nation, fwiw...).
So the feud between (somewhat) Democrat/Southern Haywood County and (somewhat) Republican/Yankee-Sympathizing Madison County accounts for why I40 nonsensically runs through a gorge that continually has landslides instead of where I26 now does.
There were a couple of over mountain massacres that have never been fully forgiven. A lot of internecine warfare from town to town, and region to region.
Despite the fact that the war era governor was a westerner (Buncombe County, real pretty homestead outside of Asheville), the mountainous end of the state has always tended to get the short shift when it comes to politics. That area really didn’t have much concern over slavery, and many independently minded folks were pro Union Sympathizers, who got especially ticked when Georgian Units came conscripting. In fact, many of them may have adopted there sentiments after such actions.
About the only thing that everyone agreed on was being against whoever came in to tell them what to do, and as ultimately that was the Union Republicans, and Reconstruction was unkind to everyone in the state (except a few Republican governors, probably), it has been pretty hard to be a Republican for many folks ever since.
Interesting list of Governor’s Party Affiliations here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_North_Carolina