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law. As a North Carolinian I remember the outrage all over the country several years ago when our former republican nutcase Governor McCrory passed the bathroom law which prevented Trans from going to a public bathroom of their new gender. This outrage pressured companies such as Paypal not to set up bases in NC like they had originally planned to and it also scared off Apple from setting up a corporate base down here. The final straw I felt was when the NCAA banned college basketball tournament games from happening in the state of NC until that law was repealed. For those of you who don't know college basketball is huge in NC and people always look forward to NCAA tournament games being played down here every year. The combination of scaring off businesses from coming to NC along with losing sporting events caused people to vote out McCrory and lead to the repeal of this horrible law.
This strategy has to be applied to Texas. People need to put a lot of pressure on corporations not to go down to Texas. Also have the NCAA prevent any College Football bowl games from being played down there until the abortion law is repealed. It may not have quick results in Texas like it did in NC since Texas is red while NC is purple but eventually over the next several years Texas will cave in. I don't think over the long run they would be strong enough to stomach not having Bowl games along with top notch corporation not coming to their state.
druidity33
(6,435 posts)dsc
(52,130 posts)NC only has one franchise of each, and frankly our college teams (especially basketball) are vastly better than the pros. I do think a big enough boycott might make them rescind the law.
Jspur
(578 posts)is the biggest sport down there. He's told me for Texans that it's up there with religion. According to my friend, College football is as big in Texas as college basketball is in NC. College Football is bigger than even the NFL much like how college basketball in NC is bigger than the NBA. Go after College football and they will be in tears.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)but I don't think boycotts are going to work in Texas. Like you said, NC is a lot more purple. They actually elect Democrats.