How the Carolinas Fixed Their Blurred Lines (2014)
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We set off from the main group, and away from the well-defined trail; I don't remember if the boy in charge objected to our innovative approach to returning to camp, or just couldn't be bothered with it, but they went on ahead without our small adventure crew. The main group made it back to camp, as expected, about two hours later.
Our group, on the other hand, was still wandering through the woods as dusk approached about four hours later. Before panic set in, we luckily heard a truck off in the distance...so, we headed for it, and found a road. We assumed it was the road where the campground was located, and figured we'd be back to camp in no time (surely we were really close, given how long we'd been walking). An hour later, we saw a sign..."Welcome to South Carolina". We'd walked from South Carolina into North Carolina, and were many miles from camp.
The scout leader found us a few hours after dark; we were on the wrong road, going the wrong way, and had likely crossed back and forth from NC to SC a couple of times in our hike. We got back to camp around 11:30PM. Henceforth, getting lost was called a "Finley Shortcut".
This story doesn't have any real point, but I'd guess the border that we crossed a couple of times during that hike has since changed.
Y'all should have stuck around for the superior pulled pork experience!
I'm fond of both mustard and vinegar sauces. Tomato is good, too (that's actually what's popular where I'm from in upstate SC and western NC).
The last time I ever ate red meat (or large mammal meat) was a pulled pork sandwich 23 years ago. I became a vegetarian a few months later, after having étouffée in Louisiana on my way to Texas. I still partake of BBQ pretty regularly, and make my own sauce, but it's always tofu, seitan, jackfruit, etc.
So, yeah, even vile racists make good BBQ in SC, and nobody held their racism against them through decades of successful operation. I always found that history pretty fascinating, even before the racism came up...brothers kinda duking it out in a BBQ turf war, in a state where BBQ really matters.
Not sure when you attended schools in Greenville, but I was in elementary school there back in the mid-80s. It was only a few years back that I learned about an ugly little side of the school system there. Back in that era, all the elementary schools were built without air conditioning, but they were designed in such a way that it could easily be added. The PTA groups in the more affluent parts of town were party to this and would always chip in for the AC units (my school had AC in every classroom). I understand that the schools across town weren't able to do the same. As I recall, it can get pretty hot and humid down there. I'm sure this wasn't unusual in the south, but I was nevertheless surprised to learn about it.
What does this quip add to the article? Was it a necessary insult? Would the author make the same type of insult about Oregon and California?
Not everything is always lawyer speak. Sometimes, jokes are okay.
And yes, in an article about prop 64, a similar remark might very well be found about California.
> And yes, in an article about prop 64, a similar remark might very well be found about California.
I very much doubt that.
But both of the Carolinas have passed or attempted to pass needlessly restrictive Voter ID laws. So perhaps we should consider it "unnecessary commentary" or "snark" instead of an insult?
The point being, whether voter ID is restrictive depends on how widespread accepted ID is, and what the barriers to getting such ID are. I recall that, much like gerrymandering, there are cases where US state legislators explicitly demanded demographic information on ID ownership before moving forward with voter ID laws.
That is to say, there isn't just correlation between voter-id proposals and partisan advantage, there are clear signs of actual intent.
Instead, the states that are implementing voter ID laws are primarily states that used techniques like poll tests to disenfranchise minority voters, have limited access to ID issuing facilities in areas where voters tend to lack ID, and require documentation for issuance that people may not possess.
Seen through that lens, it's difficult to see America's regional interest in voter ID as anything other than a disingenuous attempt to continue to disenfranchise minority voters.
https://www.ncdot.gov/dmv/driver/id/
Most of the commentary about voter ID laws here is from ignorant politically motivated journalists who find it easy to look down and judge southern states because everything they're doing must be racist and we're morally superior in every way. They don't even bother to look at what it's arguing. Sorry, but it gets a little tiring, and when it comes to this attitude of regarding southerners as ignorant and prejudice it's often the most ironic example of the pot calling the kettle black. It's harder to do something so basic as get utilities turned on in a new apartment to say nothing of a passport, and an ID would be required anyway for that, that anyone of basic competence can do it and it isn't some great imposition on them. It's not a literacy test or requiring proof of land ownership or anything like that.
Furthermore, in the absence of any widespread voter fraud, what purpose does it serve or accomplish other than to intimidate or disenfranchise voters? Voter ID only makes sense when there are concerns about fraudulent activity.
It's not so much the insult to the states, but equating of solving problems in a mature manner with progressive politics. There doesn't seem to be any wealth redistribution or protection of underprivileged groups involved, so I'm not sure what's progressive about it.
But I still found it funny. It didn't seem out of place to me at all as a SC resident.
Arguably, yes.
http://wfae.org/post/corrected-nc-sc-boundary-set-now-big-ch...
I'm looking for more than just "grabbing tax dollars" or "justifying their existence" reasons. What legally compels the states to solve the problem this way instead of in a way that is least disruptive to the people who actually live there?
https://www.google.com/maps/place/North+Myrtle+Beach,+SC/@33...