Emi
As a resident of NC (Raleigh), I can cofirnm that this is indeed for real and has been carried by multiple local news outlets (WRAL, NBC17, News Observer, etc.). I'm sure they think they're being clever, but if this passes (and that could be a big IF depending on how our newly elected Republican governor wants to position himself he has been trying to play both the staunch conservative and the moderate) it will simply be a litigious waste of time and money because this would likely not stand up in a federal court.It's getting the typical right-wing spin in the state though.Ever since the GOP made in-roads into the NC legislature, they've been doing a lot of this. I suspect (or maybe just hope) that we will have an eventual return to normalcy after the relatively new GOP get the crazy out of their system. Or we could be trying to race the deep-south to the bottom. Who knows?(As a primer to NC politics, the Democrats held a majority in both houses from 1896 to 2010, until the Obama-backlash hit our state.)