County Day

RESEARCH COUNTIES

In case you were wondering the "Research Triangle Region" counties consist of Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Moore, Orange, Person, Vance, Wake, and Warren.

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VOTING RIGHTS ACT COUNTIES

These are the counties in North Carolina (almost all in the East, a few in the Piedmont) that are covered under the Voting Rights Act reauthorization:
Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Camden, Caswell, Chowan, Cleveland, Craven, Cumberland, Edgecombe, Franklin, Gaston, Gates, Granville, Greene, Guilford, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Jackson, Lee, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, Northhampton, Onslow, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Person, Pitt, Robeson, Rockingham, Scotland, Union, Vance, Washington, Wayne, Wilson.

I'm slightly surprised that Mecklenburg, Forsyth, or even Wake are not on there. These areas definitely have had problems in the past: does the U.S. Justice Dept. consider such potential incidences ameliorated now?

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PITT COUNTY and ONSLOW COUNTY

Greenville, NC and Jacksonville, NC are rocking the young folk, according to a report by Money Magazine

Greenville's and Jacksonville's populations are reported to be 47.6% and 46.9% single respectively.

This leads to only two possible conclusions: either we're dealing with a large college campus and/or large military base or the sepulchrous marriage breakdown epidemic is currently ravaging Eastern North Carolina.

The interpretation is yours.

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BUNCOMBE COUNTY:
The New York Times is surprised that Asheville, NC is gay-friendly. So gay in fact that the Times is now encouraging their constituencies to visit what they assert is a "gay-friendly getaway."

After all its easy to get there and there's so much to do!

Just hop on a flight from Newark to Asheville direct on Continental, stay in quaint hotels in the $200+ range (named after un-named famous author Thomas Wolfe), and visit the Biltmore Estate.

Once again proving how incredibly, disgustingly, beautifully GAY NC counties/New York Times are. Now if only the Times could be as unpretentious, sincere, and bluntly prejudiced as county day residents, I might consider calling off my call to have the New York Times editor tried for treason.

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WILSON COUNTY -

"The engagement is off.

U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield, a Wilson Democrat, might have earned immediate "cool" points with the young generation last week when it was learned that his daughter was engaged to rapper The Game and that Butterfield himself had given the entertainer "the third degree" this spring.

Alas, the engagement's off.

The pairing -- and Valeisha Butterfield's 19-carat engagement ring -- was first announced in the July issue of "Sister 2 Sister" magazine. But reports later said the rapper was recently seen with another woman at an awards show.

Her parents are divorced; her mother, Jean Farmer-Butterfield of Wilson, is a state representative in the legislature.

Valeisha Butterfield, who had bit parts in two movies, met The Game in her job as coordinator of Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, said Ken Willis, the congressman's spokesman.

"They had been friends, and then he asked her to marry him," Willis said. "Then, they decided not to go through with the engagement."

The Game appears in the movie "Waist Deep" and has a new album out this summer.

Willis said the congressional office has been swamped with calls about the engagement and breakup.

Willis did confirm a key detail of the story:

"Yes, it was 19 carats," he said. "And she gave it back."

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