I fucking hope so, I'm in NC and this shit sucks. What's crazy is that if we had per Capita representation here we'd be very progressive (all seats determined by raw votes are always strongly democratic/progressive), but the district maps are so fucked that every urban center is split in insane ways. There's places where 3 neighbors could be in 3 different districts if they're in an urban center.
Or in Charlotte's case, they put it as a single district with a single representative and have the suburbs like 6 reps.
Asheville, Boone, Carboro, Raleigh, Charlotte, all great places. Though the cost of living in and around them has been absolutely skyrocketing lately as we get more California and NY transplants (coupled with terrible local laws on use of housing stock as short term rentals).
If you only ever visited those places you'd never know that the state Senate was so violently reactionary.
lmao I wish. It's so fucking boring here, it's a car dependent hell-hole, but also its roads' orientation is literally the worst out of 100 major cities. And politically, we got rid of the mayor that tried to protect trans rights because the state pushed back. She was already a neolib afaik, but the person we replaced her with is even more of a neolib.
Fair, Charlotte still isn't nearly as reactionary as any of the rural areas that surround it. Also "progressive" in America is still almost always neolib. The other cities mentioned are also primarily neolib too, the city councils in the smaller ones are almost completely controlled by developers and landlords.
The people in those areas are for the most part good though, the reactionaries tend to congregate in the bigger suburbs and rural farms (as owners and leasers, not actual farm workers)
They call this packing and cracking. You either pack all the urban dem voters into one district, or you carve the urban center up so that the suburban psychos outnumber them.
I fucking hope so, I'm in NC and this shit sucks. What's crazy is that if we had per Capita representation here we'd be very progressive (all seats determined by raw votes are always strongly democratic/progressive), but the district maps are so fucked that every urban center is split in insane ways. There's places where 3 neighbors could be in 3 different districts if they're in an urban center.
Or in Charlotte's case, they put it as a single district with a single representative and have the suburbs like 6 reps.
Compare the district map
With a population map
Love this shithole state
Asheville, Boone, Carboro, Raleigh, Charlotte, all great places. Though the cost of living in and around them has been absolutely skyrocketing lately as we get more California and NY transplants (coupled with terrible local laws on use of housing stock as short term rentals).
If you only ever visited those places you'd never know that the state Senate was so violently reactionary.
lmao I wish. It's so fucking boring here, it's a car dependent hell-hole, but also its roads' orientation is literally the worst out of 100 major cities. And politically, we got rid of the mayor that tried to protect trans rights because the state pushed back. She was already a neolib afaik, but the person we replaced her with is even more of a neolib.
Charlottes economy is so finance based the most progressive elements you’ll get are unironic girl bosses. Everything else is mulch beneath CMPDs boots
Fair, Charlotte still isn't nearly as reactionary as any of the rural areas that surround it. Also "progressive" in America is still almost always neolib. The other cities mentioned are also primarily neolib too, the city councils in the smaller ones are almost completely controlled by developers and landlords.
The people in those areas are for the most part good though, the reactionaries tend to congregate in the bigger suburbs and rural farms (as owners and leasers, not actual farm workers)
They call this packing and cracking. You either pack all the urban dem voters into one district, or you carve the urban center up so that the suburban psychos outnumber them.