[Phantom Lord]

In the long run, those numbers are actually a bad sign of things to come in many "red" states. Those 300,000 people who moved from New York to North Carolina in the 1990s brought their political attitudes with them. Adding several hundred thousand former Mario Cuomo supporters to a state's population is eventually going to turn North Carolina into New York South. Try to imagine a NASCAR race in which the winner has to give half his earnings to the guy who finished last.

I have said it in the past and I will say it again. You and others who say this are full of crap. NC has been run by the democrats for 140 years. They have had absolute and total control of this state except for a couple flukes where a republican was elected governor. And when the GOP won control of the state house in 1994 GOP nationwide landslide. And it wasn't until the year 2000 that a republican was elected to the Council of State for the FIRST TIME IN HISTORY!

And us evil NY Yankees have moved to NC the number of registered republicans has exploded in this state and the number of registered dems has been in a continual decline. The GOP has increased its representation in Congress, and once again in the 2002 election won the state house, with a Jim Jeffords turn coat switching parties to make it a 50/50 split.

NYers are moving here in droves, starting businesses, working in high paying, quality jobs, and voting republican.

[Alberta's Child]

1. Elizabeth Dole never could have won in North Carolina if she had run before the early 1990s. And it had nothing to do with any "conservative" credentials, either.

2. Regardless of which party dominated the state's political landscape for the last century, there's no way North Carolina could have been "liberal" to any extent before the early 1990s if it had already elected Jesse Helms to three terms in the U.S. Senate by that point. And if Helms had stuck around for the 2002 and 2008 elections, his races would have become increasingly tight.

3. North Carolina has become increasingly urbanized over the last ten years. Regardless of party affiliation, voters who live in urban and suburban areas tend to be much more liberal than their rural counterparts.

4. John Edwards. Case closed.

[holdmuhbeer]

And us evil NY Yankees have moved to NC the number of registered republicans has exploded in this state and the number of registered dems has been in a continual decline

Thats because the old time southern democrats are literally dyeing off.