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What are they? Are you saying SC has more tourism spending than NC?
SC's beaches get more visitors than NC's. The Outer Banks gets about as many tourists as the Hilton Head/Beaufort area (between 2.5-3M) and no coastal location in NC gets as many tourists as Myrtle Beach (around 17 million). It's hard to come across actual visitor numbers for the Wilmington area, but comparing the other stats (economic impact, taxes generated), it is only a fraction of Charleston's numbers.
I think South Carolina is North Carolina's lower counterpart. Like South Dakota is to North Dakota, and West Virginia to Virginia, etc.
It doesn't matter what "you think"--you've already said you've only been to Charlotte and yet are making grand proclamations about what two entire states are like? It's historical coincidence that the old colony of "Carolina" got divided up, before the United States even existed. Has NOTHING to do with current standings (and BTW, the whole reason West Virginia separated from Virginia was because they were so fundamentally DIFFERENT )
The two states share part of a name, generally similar geography (but so do others), and both refer to the University of ___ Carolina as "Carolina", but otherwise, Virginia is more like NC than SC is by many demographic and sociocultural measures.
Don't ask questions that expose your ignorance if you don't want to be called on it. Meanwhile, you can find out for yourself what the differences are in the two states by spending time in somewhere other than the one city that is probably LEAST like either "Carolina" than anywhere else!
It doesn't matter what "you think"--you've already said you've only been to Charlotte and yet are making grand proclamations about what two entire states are like? It's historical coincidence that the old colony of "Carolina" got divided up, before the United States even existed. Has NOTHING to do with current standings (and BTW, the whole reason West Virginia separated from Virginia was because they were so fundamentally DIFFERENT )
The two states share part of a name, generally similar geography (but so do others), and both refer to the University of ___ Carolina as "Carolina", but otherwise, Virginia is more like NC than SC is by many demographic and sociocultural measures.
Don't ask questions that expose your ignorance if you don't want to be called on it. Meanwhile, you can find out for yourself what the differences are in the two states by spending time in somewhere other than the one city that is probably LEAST like either "Carolina" than anywhere else!
It doesn't matter what "you think"--you've already said you've only been to Charlotte and yet are making grand proclamations about what two entire states are like? It's historical coincidence that the old colony of "Carolina" got divided up, before the United States even existed. Has NOTHING to do with current standings (and BTW, the whole reason West Virginia separated from Virginia was because they were so fundamentally DIFFERENT )
The two states share part of a name, generally similar geography (but so do others), and both refer to the University of ___ Carolina as "Carolina", but otherwise, Virginia is more like NC than SC is by many demographic and sociocultural measures.
Don't ask questions that expose your ignorance if you don't want to be called on it. Meanwhile, you can find out for yourself what the differences are in the two states by spending time in somewhere other than the one city that is probably LEAST like either "Carolina" than anywhere else!
Actually Francois, you are not correct. West Virginia was separated from Virginia because most West Virginians had no say in the matter, 28,000 voters out of 79,515 voters created the state. Most of West Virginia's territory consists of counties that voted for the Confederacy in 1861, about 2/3's of the state acreage. West Virginia was actually created outside the state of Virginia, it was created in Wash. DC by the Congress and President Lincoln. It was also created by the Confederacy, which siphoned soldiers from West Virginia and sent them to defend South Carolina, Tennessee and eastern Virginia while abandoning West Virginians to Union occupation. The "breadbasket" of the Confederacy, the Shenandoah Valley, was saved from Union occupation in large part by soldiers from West Virginia. The largest number of West Virginians at Gettysburg were in the Army of Northern Virginia, but there are no monuments to those men.
NC and SC share two MSAs, the Myrtle Beach - Brunswick County NC MSA and the Charlotte - Rock Hill SC MSA. Greenville SC and Asheville news are both covered by some of the local media. I think the largest metroes in SC are similar to the largest ones in NC although smaller, and the small towns in both are similar.
Wilmington is similar to Charleston, but smaller.
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