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... Hmmm, North Carolina's western edge was the Mississippi River 👀 Memphis, NC. Took that pic out of my 1918 copy of "A History Of The United States" by John Latane'. 100 year old history books have a different twang to them. 🧐 ML


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keyspeed09 Nc is a big state I live here and been end to end and it is a long drive. It takes about half that to go top to bottom. We have the highest peek this side of the Mississippi great trout fishing in the smokies and one of the best coastlines in the south 3 likes

  -  laruetactical @keyspeed09 ... Mt. Mitchell 2 likes

  -  robertsonforge @keyspeed09 and real ass BBQ.

  -  laruetactical @robertsonforge ... Hickory Smoked Pulled Pork, with vinegar based sauce and no cole slaw 💯 6 likes

  -  keyspeed09 @robertsonforge amen brother 1 like

1striker4life Takes what seems like a day just to drive from the North Carolina coast to Haywood co And TN line now could you imagine to the Mississippi River wow 2 likes

wfodave Can we give Florida back to Spain? 3 likes

  -  qddmg @wfodave why? Best gov in the states 12 likes

  -  laruetactical @wfodave ... I can imagine the meeting the Spaniards were having about Florida ... "And the mosquitos are molesting our chickens !!" 17 likes

  -  lateagain305 @wfodave sure but you're keeping Biden when we go 2 likes

  -  garry_mcpeak @laruetactical 😂😂

  -  wfodave @lateagain305 Nooooo!

  -  wfodave @qddmg Good point! I was thinking in terms of "Florida Man", mosquitoes, and the twice-yearly hell known as love bugs. 1 like

  -  taildragger_guy @laruetactical 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  -  _ramon_bjj @qddmg david probably got his vaccine and is upset DeSantis is mandating mask or vaccines 1 like

  -  russell_stalk @wfodave first off… if it wasn't for Florida… y'all all would still be wearing masks.. thanks to desantis! 2nd it's lovely here in December! 3rd we stop over 50% of the hurricanes heading up the east coast! 4th we provide the best entertainment news known to the 48 contiguous! Booyah! Lol 2 likes

  -  qddmg @wfodave lol

  -  will2399 @wfodave only if we can give the north back to the british and California back to mexico

  -  thesouthernpatriot @laruetactical wonder if there where "Florida man"...'s.... back then? Lol 1 like

  -  wfodave @_ramon_bjj Sure Einstein. Hell I grew up there. And you couldn't even get your attempted insult correct.

nocornerman That Massachusetts though

  -  ray.p.booker @nocornerman I'm with ya on that one Virginia and Connecticut too. 1 like

dfdubyah Michigan was Massachusetts... Never knew 1 like

jillmongato Connecticut looking a littlebig for its britches 😂 1 like

tn_patriot North Carolina can have Memphis. 1 like

thatthinbluelinetho Yeh but VA! Holy crap, I had no idea lol 1 like

mckeonekert Check out the Nebraska Territory on that map.

mdrumscarter Things i love about living in Florida...but things i hate ..ugh 😂

bottom_rung 1783, that was some rough country then.

masterofchaos82 Damn, Massachusetts went all the way too!

whatarewedo1ng Oof, Memphis bbq not being Memphis bbq 🤮 Our bbq and Texas is the best

rowshambow1776 Most of the charters of the original colonies had vague references to their western boarders that ignored Spanish and French territory. Georgia's basicly said it extends to the sea which means L.A. would be in the State of Georgia.

perez2021juan Interesting!

gypsytacticalworks Wow!!

tx_saltydog And the gulf coast would remain a haven for pirates and exiled Cajuns for another century….

xtremegunworx Man, those were the good old days.

gypsytacticalworks I had no idea Massachusetts was all over the place 😳

bdclone And what if Louisiana Purchase was one state.... Louisiana, Arkansas, most of Oklahoma, Missouri, most of Kansas and Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and most of Wyoming, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana.

curlyeb If you got back before that, what was known as Carolina encompassed what became NC, SC, TN, GA, MS and part of FL. Funny how rewritten history tries to demean the importance of the region.

  -  curlyeb @curlyeb ...oh and AL too.

tango.charlie05 Virginia was really popular

kstep93 G E O R G I A

terryccason I wonder if my GA fishing license still covers AL and MS? 😆

my_old_kentucky_homeboy Yeah and we want the rest of KY back!! Lol

tylerm713 That's why we still refer to the parishes in Louisiana that are east of the Mississippi and north of the lake as the Florida Parishes.

curtdemel @fraser788 look at Mass., it was all over the place 1 like

  -  fraser788 @curtdemel that's nuts - I don't remember ever learning that in school.