Orange County Commissioner Barry Jacobs sums up what some northern Orange County residents have been thinking for years: the makeup of northern county is so different from the Chapel Hill/Carrboro/Hillsborough liberal elitists who dominate politics and policy that northern Orange residents are effectively disenfranchised. The latest example comes from voting data, as reported by the Chapel Hill News, which shows that northern Orange residents overwhelmingly voted against the quarter-cent sales tax hike, while the UNC dominated liberal elites overwhelmingly voted for the tax hike.
There are two Orange counties reflected on maps showing Tuesday’s election results.
One Orange County encompasses its three towns, where voters supported the quarter-cent sales tax nearly 2 to 1.
The other covers the entire rest of the county, where voters opposed the tax increase by roughly the same margin.
The referendum passed with 60.7 percent of the vote: 10,709 votes for and 6,943 against, including early voting and absentee ballots.
