Quote:Yep. My husband had to explain all of this to me when I moved up here a few years ago. He's lived here his whole life (43 years) so he's familiar with all of this. He thinks it's weird too. Lol.

 

The thing that really surprised me is the number of northern retirees (New York, Philly, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Mass., etc.) who live in my area (Moore County). And they're the wealthier ones and are mostly democrats. They have tried many times to rearrange the area to fit the 'northern way'  and the locals (mostly republicans) are all like- If you want the northern way, go back and take your democrat ideas with you. It's an interesting place to live when it comes to stuff like this.

 

Supposedly almost 300K (291k+) republicans didn't vote in the last election. I don't know if that's just local and state, the info didn't go into detail. NC does have a lot of folks in the military that are stationed elsewhere and probably didn't vote by absentee ballot, but that's still a lot of folks in just one party who didn't vote. Who knows how many democrats didn't vote.