People usually imagine balkanization as just separating existing states with the same borders, especially with stuff like "the south", but realistically these regions would breakdown even further into smaller sub-regions like tidewater, Appalachia, gulf, etc. I always believed that NC would more likely be grouped up with Virginia and parts of eastern-Kentucky/Tennessee rather than further south. Which ya know, still not ideal, but better than being with SC and the gulf lol.
People usually imagine balkanization as just separating existing states with the same borders, especially with stuff like "the south", but realistically these regions would breakdown even further into smaller sub-regions like tidewater, Appalachia, gulf, etc. I always believed that NC would more likely be grouped up with Virginia and parts of eastern-Kentucky/Tennessee rather than further south. Which ya know, still not ideal, but better than being with SC and the gulf lol.
True; I mean if different bbq sauces cause such a distinction between east and west NC, I can only imagine secession.
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I would fight in the Sauce Civil War. Vinegar is king for BBQ.