{"id":15586,"date":"2012-05-09T08:04:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T12:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=15586"},"modified":"2012-05-09T08:04:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T12:04:58","slug":"its-who-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=15586","title":{"rendered":"It's Who You Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href='http:\/\/www2.nbc17.com\/news\/2012\/may\/08\/40\/moderate-nc-weighs-constitutional-gay-marriage-ban-ar-2254087\/'>According to the<\/a> North Carolina Board of Elections, only seven counties - including Wake, Orange, Durham, Chatham and Mecklenburg - voted against the amendment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those counties:<br \/>\nWake = Raleigh<br \/>\nOrange = Chapel Hill<br \/>\nDurham = Durham<br \/>\nMecklenburg = Charlotte<\/p>\n<p>Though the article didn't mention it, the amendment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen-times.com\/article\/20120509\/NEWS01\/305090046\/Amendment-One-passes?odyssey=nav|head\">also failed to pass<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Chatham county, where we'll be moving someday, is rural, but it sits between Wake, Orange, Durham counties. It's the suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of other counties with a big college and\/or a big city where the amendment passed:<br \/>\nNew Hanover (Wilmington, coastal college town) : amendment passed by <strong>198 <\/strong>votes (out of 43,904)<br \/>\nGuilford (Greensboro, big college town): amendment passed by <strong>72 <\/strong>votes (out of 116,968)<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}