Southern Cities Split With States on Social Issues - The New York Times
Campbell Robertson and Richard Fausset
On Monday afternoon in Raleigh, Carla Merritt, a transgender woman who has felt happy and accepted in this city, watched as hundreds of evangelicals — whom she called “the real country folk” — staged a boisterous rally on the Capitol lawn in favor of the new law that includes the provision limiting transgender bathroom access.
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