The obvious challenge will be the DEEP shadows we’ll be forced to work in. We’ll need large apertures and low f numbers.
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fake? “He attacked anyone who supported John Brown and abolition and sought compromise on terms that would be agreeable to sectional harmony. At the same time, Logan always insisted his support for “Union” should never be confused for racial egalitarianism.” Dirty Work and Decoration Day – Abbeville Institute
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I’m not following. Did I say fake? Or you’re referring to a reenactment being fake?
My comment was very much light hearted and didn’t intent to carry even once ounce of seriousness. @GucciLittlePig and I are very much the same in that light.
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We’ve come a long way! From the Olde Raleigh FB page.
Aerial view of west Raleigh in 1932.
In the distance, a recently completed Broughton High School can be seen along with the beginnings of Raleigh’s northward suburban sprawl.
Closer in, the Warehouse District can be seen in the center of the frame along with the edge of Boylan Heights on the far left.
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From the Albert Barden Collection, State Archives of NC.
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That’s the year John started there, right?
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Clearly shows the 1890 Union Station, and I believe it shows a remnant of the pre-1890 passenger station too.
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That’s when he bought his unit at the Cotton Mill, when it was still a cotton mill. 
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Clarification, it was Rainbow Upholstery.
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Not sure where to put this, so I’m putting this here. It’s interesting to see what was being said about the future of Raleigh and downtown back in 2008.
For context, 2008 was back when NC’s annexation laws weren’t as constrained. No doubt that Raleigh proper would be 600,000 in 2030 had the law not been changed. That said, the presumptions about downtown certainly have not come to fruition. Raleigh's population to surge by 2030
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I still see this argument play out though. Should Raleigh be the downtown for the region or should Raleigh be one downtown among many strong downtowns in a multi-polar region?
I tend to believe the latter and I think we already are but I occasionally see this board and other spheres believe that we should maximize Raleigh, without care about other triangle municipalities.
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To be fair, Raleigh is the largest city by far and shouldn’t just capitulate its role to the others like they are its equal. That isn’t to say that we should not acknowledge that there are other municipalities in the area because there are. To pretend that Raleigh is just a co-equal city in the Triangle when it and its county account for more than 50% of the entire CSA population is doing a disservice to the city and the entire region.
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In reality, Raleigh’s percentage of the population of Wake County (currently 41%) has been declining for decades and continues to. If the NC General Assembly hadn’t intervened, yes, Raleigh could have made more involuntary annexations – but the geographical growth of the city would still have been limited by intergovernmental agreements about where the lines are drawn between Raleigh and Knightdale, Raleigh and Wake Forest, etc.
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Don’t forget about all of the Swiss cheese holes within the city.
Of course Raleigh’s percentage declines as Wake’s suburbs boom faster. That’s just math. With every 100,000 that Wake adds, Raleigh likely only gets 10,000 or 15,000. I don’t expect that dynamic to change as the city gets hemmed in more and more on its developable edges.
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Glad someone is saying it - the other cities in the region are not exactly bending over backwards for Raleigh the way Raleigh seems to for them. Selfishly, as a downtown Raleigh resident - I would like the city to be more active and aggressive in recruiting businesses, attractions, and events specifically to Raleigh, even if it means stealing business/poaching from our neighboring cities and towns. What is good for Raleigh is ultimately good for the Triangle, while what is good for the Triangle is not always good for Raleigh.
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10 posts were merged into an existing topic: Branding Raleigh to the World