To be clear.....message sent does not usually equal message received.... I am pretty sure NC and other states just got the message that anti freedom laws are totally fair game again. I am pretty sure that our "leaders" now believe the EPA should be dead, and we should just let companies do what they want. I am sure that the haters and racists feel vindicated today. Maybe that's not the message sent, but it is certainty the message they and others received, because that's the message they WANT to receive. That's how communications actually works, having studied it and done it professionally for years.