Who is going to deliver the babies, teach the kids, design the bridges?
Red states have the highest number of people moving there for low COL and taxes. Blue states have more degreed people moving in.
Brain drain. #Politics #CoSoPolitics
https://newrepublic.com/article/176854/republican-red-states-brain-drain
@Cosmichomicide Interesting. I live in NC. Our relative cost of living is lower than California but there are fewer opportunities. That is changing as NC grows in population. Charlotte is a financial hub of the Southeast and Wilmington is a movie hub. We have colleges and universities galore and every type of living from mountains to sea and rural to urban. There's considerable tech and healthcare too including Duke Medical Center and Epic Games. The future looks bright for NC.
@Cosmichomicide Indeed we are purple. 👍 The GOP needs to keep their hands off. I'm in public education so I already know what they're capable of. I would love a blue wave to take back our legislature permanently. We were blue for decades until about 2009 when the twin disasters of Enron's Bankruptcy (NC was heavily invested) and Hurricane Fran made a case for GOP control. We've suffered ever since.
BTW, none of this is to say that NC doesn't have a bright future, but it also manages to stump it's toes every time we get close.
I've lived rural, suburban, resort, and urban in all parts of NC - we spent years riding tobacco and finance, when tobacco dried up, the rural part of the state absolutely atrophied as farmers took money to grow *nothing*.
We should have been investing in those areas. Instead we fed the resentment of the cities that pay the bills.
@Cosmichomicide @danielbsmith They should be growing cannabis. Once the "bible belt" catches on the gravy train will be less. Just like the south did with their "dry counties" now festooned with liquor stores far larger and more comprehensive than NY.
@MidnightRider @Cosmichomicide A lot of places switched over to vineyards. Alcohol is the new cash crop after tobacco dried up. I can see the argument for cannabis.
@danielbsmith
We're purple. I noticed, despite the recent actions of the NCGOP, we were mainly called out for the older Bathroom Bill impact.
Lived here all my life - it can change on a dime. Never forget the stealth midnight votes.
The GOP desperately wants to get hold of our UNC system. That will change a lot here if they do.