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p> KUDZU DEMOCRATS br> Re: Paul Chesser's Trucking South for Future Elections? : /p>

I read with great interest your comments regarding the South becoming more receptive to Democrats because of the migration of many folks, presumably liberal, from the North. While I am one of those individuals who moved South, I am certainly not liberal in most of my beliefs.

As someone who was born, raised, and educated in NYC (B'klyn, Queens, Manhattan) I can attest to the positive and negative aspects of life in the "big city." It is mostly due to the negative aspects that I moved to NJ in 1990.

p>From there I moved to NC in 2004. Most of the folks I speak with from the North(east) who I run into moved for the same reasons -- largely: quality-of-life issues. While life is not perfect here (public education, mainly) and the democrats seem to have a lock on the NC political system and the attendant excesses /abuses that come from such a monopoly. If I were a Democrat I would be more concerned, not less so, about folks migrating from the North -- after all, being from the North I was exposed to so many people who are so intelligent, it heightens my sense of self-worth to move among those who I've been told (implicitly/explicitly) all of my life know so little. br> -- Joe Kennedy br> Greensboro, North Carolina /p>

I don't know if I buy the blue South/West theory, simply because this process has been going on for at least thirty years now and those places have become more Republican. If the South and West are turning blue, it will be more from children of illegal immigrants, rather than from migrants from California and the northeast, of whom there are fewer each year to export.

p>Here in the second-fastest growing county in the country, we've added 3,000 Republican registrations since 2000, while the Dems have added only 300. This suggests to me that our newcomers are fleeing the oppressive taxation, regulation, crime, and housing costs of the People's Republic of California.

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