In his study of types of North Carolina counties, Duke University professor Mac McCorkle illuminates the complexity of modern North Carolina; he categorizes 28 counties as a “countrypolitan” blend of rural and metro. “The White population increased between 2010 and 2020 in hundreds of neighborhoods at the center of many large cities, even as it declined almost everywhere else in the country,” reported the Post, which listed Raleigh 17th among the cities with census tracts of high white population gains. Reports from Carolina Demography and the demographer of the Office of State Budget and Management offer additional insights into North Carolina’s ongoing transformation.