Well done, North Carolina bigots! And sympathies to the good people of that state.

[swag]

[Snarkoleptic]

1. Hits them in the only spot they seem to understand, the pocketbook.

Not referring to the good citizens, of course.

[keithbvadu2]

7. No sweat! They'll just have more gun shows and evangelical healing revivals to make up the money.

[moonbeamMIMI]

16. More gun show......

You got that right!!!

[GummyBearz]

13. For some reason I doubt the politicians will be hit in the pocketbook

Something tells me they will get their usual kickbacks, "legal bribes", and all the dressing on the side despite this. That is our system after all

[wncHillsupport]

2. If you are excepting us "good citizens" then don't use the term NC bigots.

There are plenty of us Democrats and progressives in this state. We are just outnumbered by the lead Republican Gov and his legislators.
Hoping that will change on Nov. 8.
And yes, the commercial losses hurt all of us, not just the bigots.

[Nevernose]

3. If you're not a bigot in North Carolina

Than how does the term apply to you?

(I know what it's like to be outnumbered by bigots in your home state and being unable to do anything about it, but there's really no need to take criticism of bigots in your same geographic locale so personally)

[paleotn]

11. The thing is we're NOT outnumbered.

....But the Rethugs actually show up at the damn polls. Dems not as much, particularly in off year elections.

[Nevernose]

12. That's the case all over

Republicans get in office -- in my state the statewide elections are held in non-presidential years -- pass a budget nth of bullshit laws, and then the Democrats MIGHT come out and vote two years later. I'm sure you agree that it's very frustrating.

My larger point was that calling out bigots in a state is not the same as calling out everyone in that state. If people talk poorly about "bigoted white people" it really shouldn't bother white people that aren't bigots, for instance.

[paleotn]

9. Actually we outnumber registered Republicans by a hefty amount...

and hold a healthy plurality in the Old North State....2.7 million registered Democrats, 2.0 million Republicans, 2.0 million unaffiliated, and barely enough Libertarians to fill an FCS football stadium, 30K. What matters is who's base turns out and who pulls more unaffiliated. If you split the unaffiliateds down the middle, we easily crush the Republicans IF we all actually vote. But in reality we don't because so many on the Dem side don't fucking show up. Particularly in mid term elections. Thus we're cursed with McDumbass and his legislature of clowns.

[Coolest Ranger]

4. Yep

I keep telling friends their hated of us LGBT is why we're losing money

[LakeArenal]

5. I don't think they give a damn

Supporters of this law just think that relocating to new states is more proof of the "war" against "Christianity".

[llmart]

6. The NC bigots don't care about the above.....

they still have Nascar.

[ms liberty]

8. And you don't know anything about NC

Here in NC, college basketball is a religion. Losing the ACC and NCAA Division I games is a big deal.

[paleotn]

10. Yep. When the ACC and NCAA pulled tournament games

...THAT got immediate attention. The only thing worse would have been a ban on BBQ. NASCAR? Who gives a crap.

[ms liberty]

14. I would not go that far.

NASCAR is on the list too, but college basketball I s in the blood.

[sellitman]

15. For this to really frost their nickers

It would be better if dollar figures could be attributed to each line with a grand total.