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C'mon white people, get to fucking and lose the condoms.
 
I blame critical race theory.


White people feeling too guilty and ashamed to procreate.
 
Good article on the demographic changes in NC. More than half of NC's 100 counties lost population over the past decade, most of them in rural areas. Nearly four-fifths of all NC's population growth happened in its two largest metro areas - Raleigh/Durham/Cary/Chapel Hill and Charlotte/Mecklenburg. Nearly one-quarter of the state's population now lives in just two counties - Wake and Mecklenburg. And as those counties are now heavily Democratic, along with other large urban counties like Guilford, Forsyth, Buncombe, etc., and as the red rural areas continue to shrink as a share of the state's population, it explains why NC as a whole is becoming more purple and competitive in presidential and many statewide elections. Of course, thanks to gerrymandering the NC GOP has maintained a lock on the state legislature and NC House seats, and that likely won't change in this decade, unfortunately.

Link: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article253388708.html

ETA: Places like Mecklenburg and Wake and Buncombe are driving almost all of the growth in this state, but we're being governed by the likes of Reidsville, Lexington, and Asheboro. Figures.
 
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NC has gotten less purple over the last 10 years. Ten years ago NC had a Dem governor, one Dem senator, and had voted for Obama in 2008.
 
NC has gotten less purple over the last 10 years. Ten years ago NC had a Dem governor, one Dem senator, and had voted for Obama in 2008.

From 1984 to 2004 Republicans won every presidential election, usually with well over 50% of the vote. Obama broke through, barely (by about 0.3%) in 2008. However, the 3 GOP victories since then were by very small margins - Romney won by 2% in 2012, Trump by about 3.5% in 2016, and by only 1.4% in 2020, so it's still a marginal state in presidential elections. In the Senate the elections have also been very close - Tillis won by just 1.5% in 2014, a strong Republican year nationally, and won by just 1.8% in 2020 against a Democrat who was in the middle of a sex scandal. It's still pretty purple, and is likely to become even more so as the rural areas continue to shrink.
 
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