NC is heading to be "the NY of the south"
Have you been to New York? Or heard anything about it? There is one overwhelmingly dominant urban mass that dictates the politics of the entire state. In North Carolina, the multiple "urban" areas are fairly balanced and not in any position to become politically dominant. If it really were headed to be the New York of the south, Charlotte would have to be growing much faster and be MUCH more liberal. The only urban area you can really say is liberal overall is Durham. Raleigh, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Asheville, and Charlotte are all floating around the middle with no real dominant political direction. The rest of the state, however is heavily conservative except for the sparse northeast.
I'm just saying with the growing population from NY and NJ, NC will become more and more like NY
