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Redrawn border makes SC homeowners NC residents
Bryan Mims and Mark Binker ^

Posted on 05/29/2016 5:28:45 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Gastonia, N.C. — Several homeowners in South Carolina could become North Carolina residents by Jan. 1, 2017, thanks to a bill to realign the border between the states.

The line between North and South Carolina is not precisely where surveyors drew it the colonial times, so lawmakers in both states are attempting to straighten the line.

(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...


TOPICS: US: North Carolina; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: borders; northcarolina; southcarolina
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I see new meaning to “Grandfathered”.


21 posted on 05/29/2016 6:08:07 PM PDT by Does so (Vote for Hillary...Stay Home...==8-O)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The original surveys began in the late 1700’s and were performed with basic tools of the time: a compass and a 66 foot long chain.

The surveyors and the chain-men walked the survey line, aligning the chain with a compass bearing and stretching the chain as straight and level as possible.

Up and down hills and mountains, through swamps, streams and rivers, around trees and rocks, in wild territory and in all types of weather.

Many of the survey monuments were just piles of rocks and trees marked with a blaze cut by an axe.

Trees and rock piles from 200 and 300 hundred years ago that are now long gone.

And then there is the issue of spherical geometry - trying to lay straight lines on the curved surface of the earth.


22 posted on 05/29/2016 6:09:07 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals Were Rebublicans 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: ConservativeStatement

In South Lake Tahoe, there are a couple of casinos that are actually in California, but the old CA / NV border stands.


23 posted on 05/29/2016 6:13:53 PM PDT by r_barton (GO TRUMP!!!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

will it help put NC more securely in our corner for the election?


24 posted on 05/29/2016 6:16:43 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: BipolarBob

They might have to go in the right bathrooms instead of whichever one they choose that day. How inconvenient!!
= = =

So ... if you have to go ...

and stand on one side of the line ...

and pee over onto the other side of the line ...

and claim you are ‘identifying’ as a ????

WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE????


25 posted on 05/29/2016 6:17:39 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

There’s a neighborhood on the NC/SC line SW of Charlotte where the kids on one street go to NC schools and the kids on the street over go to SC schools.


26 posted on 05/29/2016 6:19:48 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: ConservativeStatement

this is true of a number of state borders around the country, incidentally


27 posted on 05/29/2016 6:21:02 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

You are correct. However, those casinos needn’t worry any more. First, because the USSupreme Court finalized the NV/CA boundry line in 1980 such that those casinos remain safely in NV. And second, because even back then (before the court’s order was known), the California legislature was prepared with a bill to grant the casinos exemption from CA’s then-No-casinos-law. Since then, CA has had a proliferation of casinos itself (osetensibly under ‘Indian’ sponsorship, although that’s reportedly been an extremely elastic requirement -— all the NV casinos would have to do is hire FakeAHontus the phoney Injun Squaw Eliz. Warren as their front-person... and I bet they’d get by as CA “Indian” casinos., ha!). Problem solved!


28 posted on 05/29/2016 6:31:11 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Is South of the Border going to become North of the Border?

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2211


29 posted on 05/29/2016 6:36:03 PM PDT by Atlantan
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Really??? I know of Nevada casinos which are right up against the Nevada/California state line, or where everybody thinks the state line is. If they resurvey and find some casinos are really not in Nevada, would cause issues.....

Yes it would, big time, which is why there has been no survey since 1864. I read a book about the entire situation a few years ago, and until that time, most of what is now Eastern California (from the Sierra crest eastward) was thought to be in Nevada until 1864, when the county seat of Mono County was moved westward from Nevada to president day Bridgeport, CA. The present border is now thought to actually a few 1000 yards off.

30 posted on 05/29/2016 6:36:29 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: SeeSharp

It is settled but Georgia wants to steal Tennessee land. We say no!


31 posted on 05/29/2016 6:43:23 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: SeeSharp

that error in the GA-Tenn line goes over to include the GA-NC line, drawn too far south as well. I guess the NC legislature is not willing to give up too much mountain property.


32 posted on 05/29/2016 6:56:33 PM PDT by armydawg505
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To: ConservativeStatement

This is always a joke. They find two monuments...and stick one in between...with an impressive piece of stone...write up a formal description. The two states sign off. The people have absolutely no say.


33 posted on 05/29/2016 7:01:16 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ConservativeStatement

Sounds like a valid claim for adverse posession if I’ve ever heard one. Centuries have passed, untold taxes paid, deeds registered in the jurisdictions. Leave the border where it is.


34 posted on 05/29/2016 7:04:54 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

Adverse possession is exactly that . . . adverse. Unless there is adversity, no adverse possession.


35 posted on 05/29/2016 7:07:47 PM PDT by anton
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To: anton

If the border is in dispute, that is adversarial. The properties in question have openly and notoriously been subject to jurisdiction and taxation for centuries. Leave the border where it is, historical surveying error or not.


36 posted on 05/29/2016 7:12:43 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

I have a stupid question.

Did anyone in the affected properties complain about this situation? Was the alleged uncertainty about the exact location of the border causing anyone difficulty with property ownership, business ownership, any other difficulty in their lives, by not knowing to the centimeter, where the exact border between the states is supposed to be????


37 posted on 05/29/2016 7:17:58 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: RegulatorCountry

The border was not in dispute. It was a mistake. Mistakes don’t count.


38 posted on 05/29/2016 7:18:13 PM PDT by anton
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To: ConservativeStatement

As the flow of the Mississippi River changes off and on islands jump from one state to the other.


39 posted on 05/29/2016 7:33:59 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (The day Trump is sworn in I'm changing my screen name.)
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To: Iron Munro

An ancestor who fought in the Revolutionary War was given 1000 acres in Tennessee. He had to survey it himself. He and a friend spent many weeks in the bug infested brush surveying his grant. Only to find out the land had already been surveyed by another veteran of the war. My ancestor had to start all over.


40 posted on 05/29/2016 7:39:17 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (The day Trump is sworn in I'm changing my screen name.)
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