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@eschensam @TheAleksee River Basins that empty via SC ⇄Metros w Deep South polarization: Catawba ⇄ CLT Hickory-Morganton Broad/Congaree⇄ Forest City-Rutherfordton Shelby Yadkin/Lumber/Pee Dee ⇄ Wilkes Mt Airy W-S Statesville Lexington Asheboro Pinehurst Laurinburg Robeson Co

@eschensam @TheAleksee there’s an odd correlation b/t metro racial voter polarization & the state where their river basins empty:

North Carolina is one of those states where affluent areas are bluer than many people think

@SpookyMaps wealth in developed societies is pointless without a mass of service providers w/in commuting distance. motivating that proximate servant class to rob & kill you seems unwise🤷

@SpookyMaps luxury lifestyle signaling in developed societies is about consuming services & experiences. signaling via objects/property such as iphones, iwatches, over-leveraged mortgages & car notes are within easy reach for nobody strivers. a fundamentally third-world mentality.

Considering these areas are economically thriving in blue states, id say they are voting for their economic interests.

@chriscooperwcu even w/o the partisan politics aspect, Jackson has to be one of the most challenging geographies & population distributions of any small county. i suspect it has an unusually mismatched daytime pop/job center VS nighttime residential distribution, even discounting WCU factor.

Who Decides Where We Vote? The Jackson County Early Voting Controversy Explained open.substack.com/pub/chriscoope… #ncpol #wncpol

@SonOfODell @gercohen @chriscooperwcu the old NCSU site was at Pullen Park by the belltower, right? i recall the site being very popular & lacked parking to handle the volume. it was far from most dorms, the student center, Wolfline bus hubs, etc, so the new site on Western may be more convenient to most students?

@gercohen @chriscooperwcu What is their rationale stated for moving the nc state site off their main campus?…

The Wake County Board of Elections last night unanimously adopted an 18-site early voting plan that will have voting all 17 days Oct 15-31 including 12 weekdays, three Saturdays and two Sundays. The 18 sites is the most ever in a Wake Co mid-term (2022 15 sites, 2018 10 sites.) The 18 include 7 in Raleigh city limits, 2 in Cary, 1 each in Apex, Holly Springs, Fuquay-Varina, Garner, Knightdale, Wendell and Wake Forest, and 2 in unincorporated areas - Beech Bluff in Willow Spring and Wake Tech South (Main Campus) which despite a Raleigh address is actually between Garner and Fuquay. Floor area in the voting enclosure correlates with the number of voting booths and the number of voters that can be handled. Of the 18 Wake sites, three are over 10,000 square feet, seven are 5,000-9,999 s/f and eight are under 5,000. The smallest is the NCSU site at 1,094 s/f. See site list in image, maps and fliers suitable for distribution should be on the #wakeelections website next week.

@gercohen @chriscooperwcu love that i can walk 10-minutes to my early vote/precinct polling station, one of the nice unexpected highlights in the midst of bleakly car-centric suburban Sprawleigh living.

@TheAleksee GA is fairing better than NoVA or FL in the Trump 2 economy. but in the southeast there’s always competition in steady high growth states like NC, SC & TN, well positioned alternative destinations ready to siphon away high-quality job + transplant growth away from GA.

@TheAleksee the growth of “other demographics” staying robust is dependent on a strong job market + housing growth + a steady stream of immigration. GA is currently in recession/bust-cycle. population growth has cooled, overtaken by NC which is now projected to be larger by 2030.

There's other demographics that are making Georgia bluer and affluent voters have gotten bluer from the past in Georgia

@littlered1612 @himbopresident he didn’t skip leg day, dude is a lifelong New Yorker known for going out his way to take long walks. i guess genetics are brutal when it comes to calves, imagine schlepping as much as he does with NOTHING to show for it.

@himbopresident Man can do no wrong. Skips leg day and remains an icon.

Mamdani is such powerful representation for 35 year-old men who are not completely fitness pilled

@JoshIsFAB @himbopresident those calves are definitely not “average” but that’s OK. genuinely astonishing that a New Yorker that walks as much as Mamdani would have those calves, though.

@himbopresident And thank god because we need more average build representation

@himbopresident Mamdani has done such great work steering the American left away from the IDpol deadend. he deserves to indulge in a tiny bit of IDpol “represent my people”-ism by revealing his calves, as a treat.

@alexiswhat_ @TheAleksee CLT metro goes deep red immediately past the Mecklenburg County line, even Cabbarrus County is still pink. the border line is b/t Randolph County & Chatham County. west of the line is deep south polarization, except Asheville. east of the line is more midatlantic/midwestern.

@TheAleksee eh, it depends. union county is rich white conservative suburban hell

@christoaivalis @MattZeitlin Ron Paul was always just a caricature of a white Texan, never understood why people considered him a “libertarian”.

@MattZeitlin Also, Ron Paul had taken some pretty openly white supremacist positions, and was anti-abortion He was never a libertarian in the common understanding. He was a market fundamentalist extremist.

Most important quote about politics in the last 15 years

@therealpauldahl @nikicaga @RoKhannaNews most of the “high IQ” ones are just rules-autists at heart. that’s why they’re pedos that bother to memorize & oppose age of consent rules instead of just going the Epstein route.

@nikicaga @RoKhannaNews Libertarianism is just what you get when you’re high iq but no one has introduced you to social contract theory yet

Shocking levels of reflection from Massie here ngl

@TheAleksee i dunno what accounts for that difference but i doubt Bottoms has the magic GA Dems need to break their state-level curse.

@TheAleksee in GA the GOP started to dominate at-large elections for state-level offices post-2010 but Dems started to win at-large federal-level elections. NC is the opposite, Dems still wins Council of State post-2010 but GOP started to dominate federal elections.

I think Bottoms is less likely to win than El-Sayed

@SAonXbox @dogwoodblooms it’s still just an overgrown college town.

@dogwoodblooms Big city.

Hey there, Raleigh! 👋🏼

@ArtoftheMil @TonyaMichelle65 @dogwoodblooms it’s BS. 30 yrs ago the beautiful trail next to the NC Museum of Art was a juvenile prison surrounded by barbed wire fencing. Hillsborough St was sketchy & full of street sleepers. Historic Oakwood had streetwalkers & crack dealers on the corners. DT was abandoned after 5PM.

@TonyaMichelle65 @dogwoodblooms Same as Charlotte. No history left at all.

@Miller4NCSenate @obxpilot23 @dogwoodblooms thankfully the attempted rebrand of Crabtree as “Uptown” never stuck, but some misguided souls are still trying to make “Midtown” happen.

@obxpilot23 @dogwoodblooms Thank you for not calling it "mid-town". Not sure why Raleigh insist on rebranding every neighborhood, but that will always be North Hills to me.