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Also, will high-tech companies think twice about relocating to North Carolina? I'm a techie whose worked all over the country including high-tech firms on the west coast. The highly educated people who work at these companies tend to be liberal, independent or possibly liberatarian. Many high tech companies tend to be very progressive, eg extending benefits to gay couples with children. Many of these companies and employees felt comfortable here, because NC was supposed to be a modern, forward thinking, moderate, friendly place where it was inexpensive to raise a family. Now with all of the stuff going on in North Carolina (e.g. attempt to establish a state religion, and on and on), will these companies pull up stakes? I'm thinking of places like Cisco, SAS, Red Hat, IBM, companies doing medical research. I know these companies like how cheap it is to operate in NC, but will this be the straw that breaks the camel's back?
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I'm a techie, just had a baby and was potentially looking at RTP for a place to settle my family. I'm originally from the region, Va Beach. I was happy to find what I thought was a dash of Silicon Valley here near family and old friends. I'm now having to take a hard look at figuring out whether the future of North Carolina is a slice of Silicon Valley in the southeast or a new Mississippi.
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Honestly, hard to tell. You are right. Most of those companies thought NC was a forward thinking, highly progressive state to begin with. With all the "mess" that is going on right now, Companies will definitely take a second look about moving here. I mean what successful company would want to move a state that wants to incorporate a lot of backward thinking rhetoric into everyday life. Mark my words all this Moral Monday crap that is going on right now in Raleigh will have a trickle-down effect regarding companies thinking about relocating here.
Short term, perhaps, but due to the robust high-tech, biotech infrastructure that exists, I don't foresee a long term impact. I mean look at Austin; Texas politics doesn't seem to have affected that city's forward march much.
I see the similarities. As they've been described Austin is an educated, liberal pool of blue surrounded by an ocean of red just as Raleigh,Durham,ChapelHill is.. but is Austin more buffered against it's surrounding ocean of red?
I see the similarities.
As they've been described Austin...
"the only problem with Austin is that it's surrounded by Texas"
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but is Austin more buffered against it's surrounding ocean of red?
More than the Triangle as a whole? It might be.
But the real problem is that these questions can't be answered in the present tense.
It'll take 10 or 20 years to learn the true and deeper effects of the red tide.
Which is as true and real a problem in TX as it is in NC.
I don't think that Republican control will be a long term trend in this state. Even Texas is likely to turn blue within 10 years do to demographics unless the Republican Party turn the tide with the Hispanic community.
I don't think that Republican control will be a long term trend in this state.
Even Texas is likely to turn blue within 10 years do to demographics unless the
Republican Party turn the tide with the Hispanic community.
Don't assume that they don't know this.
The concern is how much damage they'll do before they get run out of town on that rail.
At present it appears that they have no sense of scale or decorum.
It's almost like the party became a cult.
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