Thanks for your comment. I am one of the directors of a huge progressive organizing project down here and daily get to see the good of our communities and how many people are mobilizing for change. (We just aren't invested in). Another thing we observer is that a lot of the most extreme elements of the South right now are actually not from here-- they have moved to the south into countrypolitian/suburban areas. I'm not saying that all the conservatism comes from new comers by any means, but I am saying that here in the North Carolina the neo-nazi and the Proud Boy who both ran for office last year were northern transplants.