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North Carolina

Warpy

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6. Asheville is an expat town with lots of transplants from sensible states

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Fri Aug 19, 2016, 02:15 PM

Aug 2016

I know a lot of lefties from Mass. who moved there. The area is beautiful in parts and right on the doorstep of the Smokies, one of the most drop dead gorgeous parts of this country. That's how it has attracted the transplants.

It will stay blue until Governor Pat and his henchmen in the lege manage to outlaw thinking in favor of watching televangelists and saying "amen." If there isn't a big change soon, it'll happen.

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I went to Asheville last night. An island of blueness [View all] raccoon Aug 2016 OP

Big city, lots of colleges. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2016 #1

I love Asheville Siwsan Aug 2016 #2

Universities. Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2016 #3

I lived there until I was 7 underpants Aug 2016 #5

I like it. Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2016 #7

College town? underpants Aug 2016 #4

Asheville is an expat town with lots of transplants from sensible states Warpy Aug 2016 #6

Cooper will beat McCrory. blm Aug 2016 #9

I sincerely hope so. Warpy Aug 2016 #10

A lot of GOP voters hate McCrory for a host of reasons. They refuse to vote for him and blm Aug 2016 #11

Cities are like that. The state looked like this last time whatthehey Aug 2016 #8

There are a few of us in Wilmington too... armed_and_liberal Aug 2016 #12