I view the HWSNBN supporters as the NCSU grads that go to work for a Fortune 500 company and work in a cubicle all their careers. They get a cost of living raise every year and a Honeybaked Ham at the “holiday break” and have taken TONS of sensitivity training. A good, comfortable, smooth, predictable life somewhere within the control limits of success and failure (i.e. mediocrity) but they never experience exceptionalism or true unbridled success.
Of course they drank the Bilas G’man kool aid of “State’s best years are behind them, just stay down, don’t get up, or you’ll get another shiner”.