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    But at least South of the Border, South Carolina, is still south of the
                                     border
                                        
> Dr. Frederick G. Berlinger built a house in what he thought was Polk
> County, N.C. The clarified [state] line puts most of the house in South
> Carolina. Some of it, apparently, was always there.
> 

Via Hacker News [1], “How the Carolinas Fixed Their Blurred Lines -
NYTimes.com [2]”

I knew there were disputes over state boundaries throughout our history (such
as the Walton War [3] that took place in current day Tran sylvania County
[4]; and here's another article [5] about it that contains a map of the area
under question). But I didn't realize that there were still issues with state
boundaries today.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9989238
[2] http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/opinion/sunday/how-the-carolinas-
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton_War
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvania_County,_North_Carolina
[5] http://vanishedplaces.blogspot.com/2008/04/old-walton-

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