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Quatrarius · 2954 days ago · link · · parent · post: North Carolina passes bill blocking LGBT protections
the republican party: committed to local rights and combating government overreach
user-inactivated · 2953 days ago · link ·
This kind of conflict between relatively progressive legislation at the local level in cities and college towns and state governments shutting them down has been happening more and more in the south. Distrust of the distant over the local was a thing long before the Republican party. The Republicans have owned that ideological corner for a long time and have gotten a lot of mileage out of it, and now they seem to be throwing it away on culture wars stunts. It's weirdly self-destructive.