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Amazon’s HQ2 derby dilemma: Go for lower taxes or liberal voters

By Michael Sasso and Margaret Newkirk, Bloomberg News
Published: May 27, 2018, 6:01am

ATLANTA — The competition for Amazon.com Inc.’s second headquarters could come down to which city can offer a red-state business climate with blue-state culture. Or, at least a culture that won’t have Amazon’s workers seeing red.

A problem vexing chamber of commerce folks in Southern corporate hubs like Dallas, Atlanta and Raleigh, N.C.,

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