It's not really that Asheville is the Portland of the east so much as it is that Portland is the Asheville of the west.
Crunchy hippie granola? Check
Very liberal? Check
Almost entirely white? Check
Mountainous terrain covered from top to bottom with trees? Check
Were-possums? Check
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“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.” -- Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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