MSNBC:
According to the North Carolina Board of Elections, only seven counties - including Wake, Orange, Durham, Chatham and Mecklenburg - voted against the amendment.
Those counties:
Wake = Raleigh
Orange = Chapel Hill
Durham = Durham
Mecklenburg = Charlotte
Though the article didn't mention it, the amendment also failed to pass in Buncombe county, home of Asheville: a wonderful, and very liberal, city up in the NC mountains. It also failed to pass in Watauga county, home of another liberal, mountain, college town: Boone.
Chatham county, where we'll be moving someday, is rural, but it sits between Wake, Orange, Durham counties. It's the suburbs.
A couple of other counties with a big college and/or a big city where the amendment passed:
New Hanover (Wilmington, coastal college town) : amendment passed by 198 votes (out of 43,904)
Guilford (Greensboro, big college town): amendment passed by 72 votes (out of 116,968)
In other words: most of the big central cities and the groovy college towns, the places where you're most likely to meet somebody with a different background from your own, places you might want to live, voted for civil rights. The rural counties voted against.
Slightly analogous to Calif Prop 8 voting pattern.
See map here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8
If you had a Chicago like we do, well, I guess this stupid propositions would’ve never come up in the first place.
Comment on a BBC thread about this:
“”In North Carolina you can marry your cousin.. as long as it’s not your gay cousin”
Priceless.