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"As of right now, 19 households will move to the other state, and the new border will cross through some 54 homes and businesses, according to the Associated Press. Each citizen has a year to “claim” a state, which could result in new licenses, taxes, health care provisions and even business standards"
"As of right now, 19 households will move to the other state, and the new border will cross through some 54 homes and businesses, according to the Associated Press. Each citizen has a year to “claim” a state, which could result in new licenses, taxes, health care provisions and even business standards"
Thanks. That is a strange situation. If people have the choice, would they choose the state with lower taxes or the one with the better schools?
Then there's another place near Lake Gaston where little peninsulas are south of the North Carolina border, but they have Virginia mailing addresses because that's the only way the post office can reach them.
There may be an opportunity here for the homeowners to choose "none of the above" and secede. They could then threaten to invade the USA unless they are granted huge amounts of foreign aid from Washington, as in The Mouse That Roared.
On the other hand, the last time secession was tried it didn't work out exactly as planned.
660 square miles? Seriously? That's larger than Mecklenburg County. Are you sure that's correct?
No, I'm not. I just based it on the wording in this article:
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How the hell did this happen and how’d it take 281 years to settle?
In 1735, King George II sent a group of surveyors to map the border between his Carolina
colonies. The border was to start 30 miles south of Cape Fear River and head northwest to the 35th parallel, and then turn west. Just follow the position of the sun, leave some hatchet marks on the border-separating trees, badabing, you got a border. Seems simple enough.
Well, that didn’t happen. South Carolina’s team never got paid, so they bailed after 40 miles. North Carolina’s team gave one big, “**** it, good enough,” 12 miles short of the 35th parallel, leaving 660 square miles of North Carolina land to South Carolina.
Now, you’d think someone would notice this mistake. Nope. It wasn’t until 1993 that the two states decided to settle the border dispute. Of course, settling the dispute would prove to be harder than simply mapping the King’s proposed border with a GPS. Why? Because people live here now.
As of right now, 19 households will move to the other state, and the new border will cross
through some 54 homes and businesses, according to the Associated Press. Each citizen has a year to “claim” a state, which could result in new licenses, taxes, health care provisions and even business standards—if you want to talk about certain North Carolina laws."
No, I'm not. I just based it on the wording in this article:
I don't think that the two states are trading land that goes 12 miles deep into SC's current boundaries. From the maps I've seen, the boundary/surveying areas in question seem to be a few hundred feet off at most. Nonetheless, that's enough to create havoc in the lives of those living near the boundary. https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphic...ORDERS-720.png
I suppose that the original surveying could have ceded 660 square miles to SC but I don't think that all that area is in question.
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