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Article: Long division.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Business North Carolina
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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We butchered the Old North State like a slaughtered steer, hacking it apart, wrapping the pieces in the cerebral cellophane of what we figured fit best together. We attacked the terrain, tearing maps apart along the Fall Line, which divides Piedmont plateau from coastal plain, and on the fault line that separates it from the Blue Ridge escarpment. Not only did we look at the way the Census Bureau counts counties, we tried to scry patterns from how the National Weather Service clusters them for its advisories and forecasts.
But no matter how we sliced and diced it, we finally had to concede that the job had already been done for us. The best way to split up the ...