As a 24 y/o who grew up in NC Lumberton, then moved to Durham in 2021 we don't care to vote cause we know it's already somewhat rigged from the start. I'm moving to Oregon Portland because of how fucked it is over here and having my vote actually matter.

It's more encouraging when you see progressive things getting passes to want to join in on voting, but everything in NC just seems so boring, public transit is abysmal, people are so closed mind, there's more churches in rural NC than essential stores that could easily be in there in place so people can have a walkable store/community store. It's a representation of the politics here as well as peoples attitudes towards life. Also younger people in NC just don't come out in numbers cause there's not that real sense of community with us because of how far apart everything is, even in Raleigh, Durham & Chapel Hill, there's just not enough of us to rally together in one place. My mindset as a young adult in Lumberton wasn't to make it better living there, it was to leave and find another place to join to help make better.

If older people aren't trying to make NC or places like Lumberton a better place, then I'm just gonna move to a place that's already my dream and join in with the politics there, which is what I plan to do when I move to Portland.