Brooks gives a shout-out to Triangle

David Brooks says class warfare has hurt Republicans in North Carolina.

In a piece today, the New York Times columnist singles out the Triangle as one of the country's highly educated places that have been turned off by what he sees as Republican anti-intellectualism:

What had been a disdain for liberal intellectuals slipped into a disdain for the educated class as a whole. The liberals had coastal condescension, so the conservatives developed their own anti-elitism, with mirror-image categories and mirror-image resentments, but with the same corrosive effect. ... 

The political effects of this trend have been obvious. Republicans have alienated the highly educated regions — Silicon Valley, northern Virginia, the suburbs outside of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Raleigh-Durham. The West Coast and the Northeast are mostly gone.