Former Atlas Poster Miles made a fairly interesting map of precinct level results around NC's Amendment 1 in 2012, which banned SSM in the state constitution. It passed and won both white and Black voters, but there was plenty of opposition too.
(This isn't pertinent, but as Miles points out pink is very closely correlated with areas which have swung to Democrats since 2012).
https://twitter.com/jmilescoleman/status/1212793787447013377As you can see, opposition to Amendment 1 was concentrated in urban centers. Most strikingly, nearly all of Durham, including some overwhelmingly Black precincts. There was also strong opposition to the amendment in Black neighborhoods closer in to the urban core of most major NC cities, except Fayetteville. Opposition fades in more suburban Black communities, which voted for the amendment by and large except in Durham.
Interestingly, this urban-rural divide carries over even into some small cities, with parts of places like Lexington, Salisbury, and Plymouth voting against the amendment.
Durham being strong for the opposition is no surprise--it's a town with a left-leaning tilt regardless of race, and has a history of queer Black activism. I don't have a deep understanding of Fayetteville, but it's a place which is much more provincial than any other major NC city, with a strong military presence and little growth or change--and thus perhaps not a strong constituency for social liberalism.
HBCU precincts are all monolitihically no votes unsurprisingly--that's why the amendment likely did so poorly in Elizabeth City, in addition to the urban-rural thing (probably an influence in Salisbury too). One of the two dark blue precincts in Fayetteville is Fayetteville State.
In rural predominantly Black areas the amendment usually passed but there are some random losses in precincts here and there which suggest that rural Black support for the Amendment was weaker than rural white support.
