The following articles are all part of this article posted from Charlotte North Carolina at charlotte.com… Interesting reading, my brother lives in Greenville SC and says there is many, many people from NY there. The problem they have is some of the politics the NYers bring with them. North Carolina has become the North to them and is no longer considered part of the South.

That’s what he tells me anyway. My brother has been there for 10 years and loves it, he continually asks me to come down to help him and wants me to run a crew doing renovations of old buildings. I may have to for a few months.

Upstate N.Y. leads charge to Charlotte region
LEIGH DYER
Ldyer@charlotteobserver.com

On the shores of Lake Erie, the city of Buffalo and other communities have withered.

Two-thirds of cities and towns in upstate New York lost population this decade. Several games of the region’s beloved Buffalo Bills were blacked out locally this season because of unfilled seats. The local Catholic diocese is closing schools and churches.

Since its 1950s high, Buffalo’s population has declined by more than half, to around 280,000. Meanwhile, since 2000, Charlotte has added 46,000 residents.

And now, an Observer analysis of new data from the Internal Revenue Service shows a significant chunk of upstate New York’s population has moved to the Charlotte region.

The information, using address changes on tax returns, paints a picture of the migration into and out of the Charlotte region. It shows that Mecklenburg County is the No. 1 out-of-state destination for people leaving Erie County, home of Buffalo. It’s the No. 2 out-of-state destination from Monroe County, home to nearby Rochester.

The data also show strong migration from upstate New York to Union, Cabarrus, Iredell and York counties.

Most newcomers come from elsewhere in the Carolinas. Other areas with large numbers of people leaving for the Charlotte region: Miami, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Chicago.

U.S. Census Bureau data show New York is the No. 1 source of newcomers to the nine-county Charlotte region from outside the Carolinas. An estimated 13,000 people move here from the Empire State annually.

As a result, neighborhoods around Charlotte are filling with people who prefer beef on weck (roast beef on a special salty roll) and white-hots (spicy white hot dogs) to barbecue and pimento cheese.

Upstate New York-oriented restaurants such as Tavern on the Tracks in South End and Township Grille in Matthews are thriving. And the area will be the first place outside Buffalo for expansion of the Anchor Bar, pioneer of the famed Buffalo wings (slated to open near Concord Mills mall and in uptown Charlotte later this year).

Plenty of transplants come from New York City and Long Island, but the upstate has specific economic pressures behind the migration pattern.

Business and civic leaders haven’t been able to replace the jobs lost as steel, automotive and other manufacturers shed workers. Housing prices have languished.