Interesting news from the Riviera front on Page 8. The FFI is pulling off some rather significant actions.
Imagine the score-settling and reprisals going on all over France as the Germans surrender or pull out. There are probably hostilities dating back to the French Revolution or even the religious wars flaring up again, just like in North Carolina whenever public order breaks down.
North Carolina?? I never knew.
There actually needs to have been hostility. The early settlers of the NC colony were largely forced out of someplace else, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania or even Scotch-Irish landing on the coast and working their way inland up the rivers and creeks. They were a very mixed bag, from the British Isle across most of Western Europe and into Central. All sorts of religious sects.
They got on well enough, and also got on well enough with the native tribes to the point that most old families have some native ancestry. Overbearing and/or corrupt officialdom has always been the source of any blowup, and there have been more than the history books generally record. Factions form, some religious sects are more prone to supporting establishment, some had and still have an ingrained distrust. And there you go.
It’s still there, albeit getting harder to encounter with the influx of people from elsewhere, most of whom seem rather too enamored of officialdom themselves. It’ll likely flare up in some way again, I’d say in the mountain counties, most of which are the reddest of the red counties in NC. Then, you have the cities there turning into San Francisco east.