What bordering state does NC share a stronger tie with?

[JoeTarheel]

Originally Posted by Mutiny77

I don't deal with feelings; I deal with facts. You should learn to do the same, especially since you say your profession depends on it.

Oh brother. You just can't have a discussion with some people.

[Mutiny77]

Originally Posted by JoeTarheel

Oh brother. You just can't have a discussion with some people.

Yeah, like people who resort to insulting people's intelligence based on a difference of viewpoints. I never did such; you did.

[poppydog]

Originally Posted by wnewberry22

There we're a few auburn fans on site and we all started drinking and talking and these guys from alabama and one guy from SC (ROCK HILL NO LESS!) thought that my friend and I, again from nc and va, were northerners!?!?

Yeah my sister married a fellah from Mississippi and when his family came up to SE NC to the wedding festivities they all thought they were coming to the "north"! Crazy.

I tell y'all, though, I haven't seen the OP poke his head back into this thread, so I'm going to take a cue and bow out myself. Who'da thunk such a heated debate would develop over this silly poll!!

[Mutiny77]

Originally Posted by poppydog

Yeah my sister married a fellah from Mississippi and when his family came up to SE NC to the wedding festivities they all thought they were coming to the "north"! Crazy.

For some people, only the heart of the Deep South is considered Southern. It's weird.

I tell y'all, though, I haven't seen the OP poke his head back into this thread, so I'm going to take a cue and bow out myself. Who'da thunk such a heated debate would develop over this silly poll!!

I guess that's what happens when someone gets all butthurt when facts that are presented support a point of view different than his own. I don't get it myself, but hey...

[Dan_in_DC]

The whole discussion of what's closer to (or shares a stronger tie with) what is actually kind of amusing. Actually, I guess it all depends on how you want to rank things, and what it really means to be Southern.

Would North Carolina share a stronger tie with North Dakota than South Carolina does with South Dakota?

And isn't it strange that Virginia, once the Capital of the Confederacy, is the most Northern of what most folks generally call the "Southern" States? (Unless you count Maryland, which would have also joined the Confederacy, except that Abe Lincoln arrested all of the Maryland Legislators who were planning to vote for secession, and kept them in jail until the Civil War was over.)

And would Florida be "Southern"? Or would it be more appropriately Spanish (since it was originally theirs). Same question would apply to Texas, formerly part of Mexico ... or have you forgotten the Alamo?

And let's not forget America's 50th and Southernmost State, the birthplace of President Obama, who was born only a year after Hawaii achieved Statehood. South Point Cliff, on the Southern tip of the big island, is about as far South as you can go and still be in the United States. Slightly South of Cuba, it's a popular place for diving.

Of course, if you absolutely want to be more "Southern" than anybody else, you can always go down to Antarctica and party with the penguins. Would that be "Southern" enough for you? Don't forget to take your fur-lined tuxedo! (I don't recommend diving into the water.) Hope you like cold fish!

[Sean_CLT]

Florida really never has been as "southern" as the other states. It was a territory until 1845, participated little in the Civil War, and had a low population until the 1920s when the immigration boom began. The other states near it were settled in the Elizabethan and king George I and II eras, so had a few generations to develop identities before the nation was founded. So it's more like a place "affixed to" the US, like Texas was.

[ZeusAV]

I vote SC. Charlotte is the largest city between the two states and is centrally located so that many people from SC can commute in and out of the city. There's more border crossing here than any other borders that NC has.

[JoeTarheel]

Originally Posted by ZeusAV

I vote SC. Charlotte is the largest city between the two states and is centrally located so that many people from SC can commute in and out of the city. There's more border crossing here than any other borders that NC has.

I'm curious...is this fact or opinion?

[ZeusAV]

Originally Posted by JoeTarheel

I'm curious...is this fact or opinion?

Well there's no other metro area situated on a border other than the Hampton Roads area and the NC county that is a part of that metro area is extremely small in population so I would say yes it's a fact.