Reply #28: NC isn' t like SC at ALL...and yet so many folks mix them up or put them together.. [View All]

[KoKo]

NC stole the NEW SOUTH from SC...and SC hasn't ever gotten over it..but check out NC through the nigh...it's a big state and is more similar to New York State where I lived for years than SC because of the Tourist/Research Triangle and Banking Industry. But like NYS it has the "Western and Mid-Half of State losing JOBS TO NAFTA! Furniture Manufacturing and Assembly, Agriculture (Smoking Legislation) and Texttiles to China and Indonesia...that cut out the "Roadside Outlets" all those Yankees stopped at on their trips to Florida down "I-95" for so many years where they stopped for "towel, pillow and bedding OUTLETS!" The OUTLETS ARE GONE!..DEAD...JOBS GONE.... It's much different these days...We gotta depend on "High Tech" and not Manufacturing...and yet those Manufacturing Jobs fed the SOUTH!

It's hard stuff and so many folks haven't been out of NC long enough not to be used by BANKERS in CHARLOTTE seeling them "Investment Portfolio's on why Globilzation is GOOD" and the "Research Triangle" which brings in Indian, Chinese and other "Graduate Students from OTHER COUNTRIES..rather than our own" to prop themselves up.

Oh..what a sad thing Globilization has done to our Kids.....who have bright minds but can't get money from US Government like those "Dissidents" we bring in from "other contries" to compete for jobs with our poor kids who can't get into Harvard, Yale, MIT, WHARTON and other schools because our Government pays more for FOREIGN STUDENTS than the IMMIGRANTS who get Green Cards and Supplementals to get great EDUCATION HERE...in our finest schools while "OUR KIDS" can't even get the Damned BASIC LOANS to get into COMMUNITY COLLEGES! It's disgusting...