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jeff47

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5. That was true 40 years ago.

Mon Apr 6, 2015, 10:08 AM

Apr 2015

NC had a string of Democratic governors and legislatures in the intervening years that saw the handwriting on the wall. So they diversified the state.

Charlotte is heavily involved in banking, second only to NYC.
Raleigh/Durham is heavily involved in software and technology, second only to the Silicon Valley area.

These changes, btw, are why Obama won the state in 2008 and barely lost it in 2012 - those changes brought in a lot of people from out-of-state, and turned those two cities neon blue. The legislature is Republican dominated right now due to excellent work gerrymandering after 2010, and NC had a string of "Republican-lite" Democrats running for governor and US Senate.

Much of the state's agricultural output shifted to pigs and other products. The midwest kicks NC's ass in numbers, but tobacco doesn't even dominate NC's agricultural sector anymore.

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