High Three Hundreds

"Yeah, there's a huge divide, I mean, in both those categories. But particularly the west -- the north, the northeast is different than any other part of the county, you know, from Cole park down to Pittsboro down on east, that quadrant -- it's not even a quadrant, it's not even a full fourth of the county, has the majority of the county's population. It's mainly affluent, mainly white. And you can see it now that the poor people who used to live in Pittsboro can't afford to live there anymore. And we're just at the beginning of the boom, well the projected boom. I was driving through Pittsboro the other day and I noticed one of the new developments had a sign that said houses starting in the high three hundreds. And that is not something that the rest of the county really--really has. I mean, we have, you know, we have like a rich neighborhood in Siler City around the country club where people have their m- mansions that are half a million dollars. But those people are the upper five percent, right? They're not -- they're not Siler City. They're the affluent in Siler City. Meanwhile, seems like Pittsboro and Farrington and Coal Park and that whole corridor, the fifteen five one corridor, it's um -- the people are bringing the money from Chapel Hill and Carry and it's a lot more -- it's a lot different than -- than the rest of the county. And now that they have the majority of the county's population the rest of the county just does not get won't get represented. They -- we have not a single commissioner from outside that area. Everybody, all the county officials, are from that area. And they don't ever visit the rest of the county. And Siler City is not doing that badly. But you go down to to Goldston or Bear Creek and um -- you still have the old south and kind of that old southern poverty with it."