I don’t have a particularly remarkable entry planned for today. However, I do have an observation. A huge chunk of the state of South Carolina extends further north than places in North Carolina. So that seems to contradict with the name South Carolina. Doesn’t it?
The entire shaded area of South Carolina rests at latitudes further north than the southernmost tip of North Carolina where the two states share a common border termination at the Atlantic Ocean. That includes about half the state, and major cities like Columbia and Greenville!
North Carolina does provide a northern umbrella over the entirety of South Carolina. So I suppose the names of the two states actually could be appropriate after all. Even so I find it curious that a person could stand in many different areas of South Carolina and still be further north than large swaths of North Carolina.
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