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Your response to this question depends on your politics honestly. If you are liberal you will be more inclined to say VA as it is more " desirable".
Objectively speaking, NC is more like SC. Built much more similarly, share a major city together, not to mention we vote closer to they do during elections. VA goes like +10 dem, SC +10 Rep, and NC like +2 Rep.
The beginning of this thread, way back in 2007, is all about similarities/differences in geography, history, culture, etc. Now it's simply about politics. Oh, simpler times.
You could draw a horizontal line across the entire state to answer this question. The southern half (Charlotte, Fayetteville, Wilmington, etc.) would arguably be more similar to South Carolina, while the northern half (Winston, Greensboro, Durham, Raleigh, etc.) would arguably be more similar to Virginia.
I spend practically all of my time in the Triangle, Triad, and High Country. I only go to Charlotte or Wilmington once a year or so. Therefore, I think North Carolina is more similar Virginia based on my surroundings. I'm always roughly an hour south of the Virginia border, whether it's Durham, Greensboro, Winston, or Boone.
You could draw a horizontal line across the entire state to answer this question. The southern half (Charlotte, Fayetteville, Wilmington, etc.) would arguably be more similar to South Carolina, while the northern half (Winston, Greensboro, Durham, Raleigh, etc.) would arguably be more similar to Virginia.
I spend practically all of my time in the Triangle, Triad, and High Country. I only go to Charlotte or Wilmington once a year or so. Therefore, I think North Carolina is more similar Virginia based on my surroundings. I'm always roughly an hour south of the Virginia border, whether it's Durham, Greensboro, Winston, or Boone.
The triangle and the Triad are along the interstate 40 corridor in North Carolina which is not close to the Virginia state line at all IMO. And even if they were close to the Virginia state line the 3.9 million people of the triangle and triad combined is still less populated than the 4.4 million people of the Greenville Spartanburg and Charlotte areas combined. I get that South Carolina is an afterthought to a lot of people in North Carolina. However North Carolina's largest city is very much so a two-state city. And within 90 minutes of North Carolina's largest city are the csas of columbia, greenville-spartanburg, and the Triad. CSA Columbia has 1 million people, CSA greenville-spartanburg has 1.5 million people, CSA Charlotte itself has 2.9 million people, and the Triad as a CSA has 1.7 million people. To be honest the 2.2 million people of CSA triangle is kind of an outpost. Charlotte is surrounded by three different csa's with at least a million people while the triangle borders only one CSA of a million and that is the Triad. It may seem like the triangle is in the center of it all when it comes to North Carolina but North and South Carolina actually function as one big state and Charlotte is the geographic center of that big state. Charlotte is the only major city in the Carolinas that is within 3 hours of every major Carolina city think about it. Furthermore there is virtually zero cultural connection from Raleigh to Norfolk and from Raleigh to Richmond. The distance between Raleigh and those other cities are almost identical to the distance between Raleigh and Charlotte but the Raleigh to Charlotte connection culturally is much more pronounced and observable.
They’re different states. I think overall NC is more similar to SC.
Roanoke, Hampton Roads, Virginia Beach, Charlottesville, Richmond, Lynchburg, Williamsburg don’t feel that similar to NC anymore than SC would be.
I think maybe Georgia is more similar to NC than either VA or SC. Even politically.
When you look at state population and State gross product it is very tempting to compare Georgia to North Carolina. In reality I would probably compare North Carolina to Tennessee. For starters the college sports scene and the professional sports that the two states have in common are nearly identical.
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