Shame ... North Carolina was once called the "Rip Van Winkle" state because it was so far behind everyone else. And it woke up briefly and briefly gave us a great public university system as well as Red Hat Linux. Then around the turn of the century, every racist boomer with a small pension from Jersey and New York sold their assets and moved down and bought up all of the old farmland and turned it into cardboard McMansions everywhere and made it MAGA heaven. That combined with all of the Fort Liberty homesteaders who spread out from Fayettenam like a cancer with their perpetual war contracts completely changed the state overnight.
A few years ago we had the biggest solar lobby in the country ... the old families had turned the tobacco fields into solar farms and it was going well. But I guess even they have been crowded out of their own state. It's a violent place now where people can shoot up the power stations to protest books and go unpunished, and spec ops guys can shoot working immigrants 200 yards from their property in "self defense" and not even be arrested.
It's now just a stew of MAGA that keeps brewing to the point that the original flavor has been lost. It will only get saltier. The "University" system is now run by MAGAts. It takes generations to set up infrastructure like what was set up around the RTP area, and only a few years to undo it all.
Sorry North Carolina, I had to leave.