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interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Carolines" title="Les Carolines – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Les Carolines" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina" title="Carolina – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Carolina" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Carolinas" title="Las Carolinas – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Las Carolinas" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a 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nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Carolinas&params=34_48_17_N_79_40_31_W_type:adm2nd_region:US"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">34°48′17″N</span> <span class="longitude">79°40′31″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">34.80472°N 79.67528°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">34.80472; -79.67528</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">States</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Flag_of_North_Carolina.svg/23px-Flag_of_North_Carolina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Flag_of_North_Carolina.svg/35px-Flag_of_North_Carolina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Flag_of_North_Carolina.svg/45px-Flag_of_North_Carolina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a></span><br /><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Flag_of_South_Carolina.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Carolina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Flag_of_South_Carolina.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Carolina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Flag_of_South_Carolina.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Carolina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Major cities</th><td class="infobox-data"><div><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asheville,_North_Carolina" title="Asheville, North Carolina">Asheville, N.C.</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charleston, S.C.</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Charlotte,_North_Carolina" title="Charlotte, North Carolina">Charlotte, N.C.</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Columbia,_South_Carolina" title="Columbia, South Carolina">Columbia, S.C.</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Greensboro,_North_Carolina" title="Greensboro, North Carolina">Greensboro, N.C.</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Greenville,_South_Carolina" title="Greenville, South Carolina">Greenville, S.C.</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Myrtle_Beach,_South_Carolina" title="Myrtle Beach, South Carolina">Myrtle Beach, S.C.</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Raleigh,_North_Carolina" title="Raleigh, North Carolina">Raleigh, N.C.</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Wilmington,_North_Carolina" title="Wilmington, North Carolina">Wilmington, N.C.</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Winston-Salem,_North_Carolina" title="Winston-Salem, North Carolina">Winston-Salem, N.C.</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Largest metropolitan area</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia,_NC-SC_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area">Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Largest city</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charlotte,_North_Carolina" title="Charlotte, North Carolina">Charlotte</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/British_colonization_of_the_Americas" title="British colonization of the Americas">Colonized</a> as <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Carolina" title="Province of Carolina">Province<br />of Carolina</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><br />1663</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">85,839 sq mi (222,320 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Land</th><td class="infobox-data">78,804 sq mi (204,100 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Water</th><td class="infobox-data">7,025 sq mi (18,190 km<sup>2</sup>)  8.2%</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(2020)<sup id="cite_ref-QF_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QF-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">15,557,813</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">180/sq mi (70/km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Carolinian</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">GDP (nominal)<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Total</th><td class="infobox-data">$1.014 trillion (2022)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • per capita</th><td class="infobox-data">$65,145 (2022)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC-5" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC-5">UTC-5</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone">EST</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC-4" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC-4">UTC-4</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_Daylight_Time" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Daylight Time">EDT</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Carolinas</b>, also known simply as <b>Carolina</b>, are the U.S. states of <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a> considered collectively. They are bordered by <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> to the north, <a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a> to the west, and <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a> to the southwest. The Atlantic Ocean is to the east. </p><p>Combining North Carolina's population of 10,439,388 and South Carolina's of 5,118,425, the Carolinas have a collective population of 15,557,813 as of 2020. If the Carolinas were a single state of the United States, it would be the <a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population" title="List of U.S. states and territories by population">fifth-most populous state</a>, behind California, Texas, Florida, and New York. </p><p>The Carolinas were known as the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Carolina" title="Province of Carolina">Province of Carolina</a> during America's early <a href="/wiki/Colonial_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Colonial America">colonial</a> period, from 1663 to 1712. Prior to that, the land was considered part of the <a href="/wiki/Colony_and_Dominion_of_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="Colony and Dominion of Virginia">Colony and Dominion of Virginia</a>, from 1609 to 1663. The province was named <i>Carolina</i> to honor King <a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_England" title="Charles I of England">Charles I of England</a>. Carolina is taken from the Latin word for "Charles", <i>Carolus</i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carolinas&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:King_Charles_I_after_original_by_van_Dyck.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/King_Charles_I_after_original_by_van_Dyck.jpg/150px-King_Charles_I_after_original_by_van_Dyck.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="259" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/King_Charles_I_after_original_by_van_Dyck.jpg/225px-King_Charles_I_after_original_by_van_Dyck.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/King_Charles_I_after_original_by_van_Dyck.jpg/300px-King_Charles_I_after_original_by_van_Dyck.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2317" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>The Carolinas are named after <a href="/wiki/King_Charles_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="King Charles I of England">King Charles I of England</a>. Carolina is taken from the <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> word for "Charles", <i>Carolus</i>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Carolinacolony.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Carolinacolony.png/220px-Carolinacolony.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="231" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Carolinacolony.png/330px-Carolinacolony.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Carolinacolony.png/440px-Carolinacolony.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1048" /></a><figcaption>The 1663 Province of Carolina Charter</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Carolina_Vintage_Map.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Carolina_Vintage_Map.JPG/220px-Carolina_Vintage_Map.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Carolina_Vintage_Map.JPG/330px-Carolina_Vintage_Map.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Carolina_Vintage_Map.JPG/440px-Carolina_Vintage_Map.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1096" /></a><figcaption>"A New Description of Carolina" map, engraved by Francis Lamb (London, Tho. Basset and Richard Chiswell, 1676)</figcaption></figure> <p>The region was claimed as part of the Spanish territory named <i><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Florida" title="Spanish Florida">La Florida</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Juan_Ponce_de_Le%C3%B3n" title="Juan Ponce de León">Ponce de Leon</a> in 1513. <a href="/wiki/Santa_Elena_(Spanish_Florida)" title="Santa Elena (Spanish Florida)">Santa Elena</a>, a Spanish settlement on what is now <a href="/wiki/Parris_Island,_South_Carolina" title="Parris Island, South Carolina">Parris Island, South Carolina</a>, was the capital of <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Florida" title="Spanish Florida">La Florida</a> from 1566 to 1587. It was founded by <a href="/wiki/Pedro_Men%C3%A9ndez_de_Avil%C3%A9s" title="Pedro Menéndez de Avilés">Pedro Menéndez de Avilés</a>, the first governor of Spanish Florida.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There had been a number of earlier attempts to establish colonies in the area by both the Spanish and the French, who had been inspired by earlier accounts of the plentiful land of <a href="/wiki/Chicora" title="Chicora">Chicora</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Menéndez's Santa Elena settlement shifted the focus of Spanish colonial efforts northward from <a href="/wiki/St._Augustine,_Florida" title="St. Augustine, Florida">St. Augustine</a>, which had been established in 1565 to drive the French from their colony of <a href="/wiki/Fort_Caroline" title="Fort Caroline">Fort Caroline</a>. Santa Elena was ultimately built at the site of the abandoned French outpost of <a href="/wiki/Charlesfort" class="mw-redirect" title="Charlesfort">Charlesfort</a>, founded in 1562 by <a href="/wiki/Jean_Ribault" title="Jean Ribault">Jean Ribault</a>. </p><p>The establishment of Santa Elena followed the destruction of the French Fort Caroline by Menéndez in 1565. The Spanish settlement housed a sizeable community, and became the base of operations for the <a href="/wiki/Jesuit" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesuit">Jesuits</a> and military working in the northern zone of <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Florida" title="Spanish Florida">Spanish Florida</a>. From this base the Spanish founded a number of other ephemeral forts as far inland as the <a href="/wiki/Appalachian_Mountains" title="Appalachian Mountains">Appalachian Mountains</a>, but resistance from local Native American tribes and the lack of interest of Spain in the area, caused these to be abandoned, relocated or destroyed. Santa Elena was ultimately abandoned in 1587, with its survivors relocating to St. Augustine. The Spanish never pressed their colonial claims to the area again, focusing on other areas of the American continent. The territory was thereafter left to the native Americans until October 30, 1629, when Charles I granted a patent to his attorney-general, Sir <a href="/wiki/Robert_Heath" title="Robert Heath">Robert Heath</a>, for the lands south of <a href="/wiki/36th_parallel_north" title="36th parallel north">36 degrees</a> and north of <a href="/wiki/31st_parallel_north" title="31st parallel north">31 degrees</a>, "under the name, in honor of that king, of Carolana".<sup id="cite_ref-Cummings1998_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cummings1998-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>"<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Carolus</i> is Latin for 'Charles'. The charter was unrealized and later ruled invalid. </p><p>On March 24, 1663, <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">Charles II</a> issued a new charter to a group of eight English noblemen, granting them the land of Carolina, as a reward for their faithful support of his efforts to regain the throne of England. The eight were called <i><a href="/wiki/Lords_Proprietor" class="mw-redirect" title="Lords Proprietor">Lords Proprietor</a></i> or simply <i>Proprietors</i>. The 1663 charter granted the Lords Proprietor title to all of the land from the southern border of the <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Colony" class="mw-redirect" title="Virginia Colony">Virginia Colony</a> at <a href="/wiki/36th_parallel_north" title="36th parallel north">36 degrees north</a> to <a href="/wiki/31st_parallel_north" title="31st parallel north">31 degrees north</a> (along the coast of present-day Georgia).<sup id="cite_ref-Avalon1998_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Avalon1998-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The establishment of separate colonies did not officially occur until 1729, when seven of the Lords Proprietors sold their interests in Carolina to <a href="/wiki/The_Crown" title="The Crown">the Crown</a>, and both <a href="/wiki/Province_of_North_Carolina" title="Province of North Carolina">North Carolina</a> and <a href="/wiki/Province_of_North_Carolina" title="Province of North Carolina">South Carolina</a> became royal colonies. </p><p>In 1665, the charter was revised slightly, with the northerly boundary extended to 36 degrees 30 minutes north to include the lands of the <a href="/wiki/Albemarle_Settlements" title="Albemarle Settlements">Albemarle Settlements</a> along the <a href="/wiki/Albemarle_Sound" title="Albemarle Sound">Albemarle Sound</a>, which had been settled mainly by Virginians migrating south. Likewise, the southern boundary was moved south to 29 degrees north, just south of present-day <a href="/wiki/Daytona_Beach,_Florida" title="Daytona Beach, Florida">Daytona Beach, Florida</a>, which had the effect of including the existing Spanish settlement at St. Augustine, an unenforceable overreach of English power. The charter also granted all the land, between these northerly and southerly bounds, from the Atlantic Ocean, westward to the shores of the Pacific Ocean, an even more unenforceable overreach. </p><p>Between 1663 and 1729 there were many disagreements relating to defense, governance and the difference between the two differing <a href="/wiki/Agrarianism" title="Agrarianism">agrarian</a> styles employed by the inhabitants of the <a href="/wiki/Colony_of_Virginia" title="Colony of Virginia">Colony of Virginia</a> and that practiced by the planters arriving to <a href="/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina#Colonial_era_(1670–1786)" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charles Town</a> from the <a href="/wiki/West_Indies" title="West Indies">West Indies</a> and <a href="/wiki/Barbados" title="Barbados">Barbados</a>. </p><p>In 1729 the Province of Carolina was divided when the descendants of seven of the eight Lords Proprietors sold their shares back to the Crown. Only the heirs of <a href="/wiki/Sir_George_Carteret" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir George Carteret">Sir George Carteret</a> retained their original rights to what would become the <a href="/wiki/Granville_District" title="Granville District">Granville District</a>. Both the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_North_Carolina" title="Province of North Carolina">Province of North Carolina</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_South_Carolina" title="Province of South Carolina">Province of South Carolina</a> became <a href="/wiki/Crown_colony" title="Crown colony">British Crown Colonies</a> in 1729.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a> (1861–1865), South Carolina was the first Southern state to <a href="/wiki/Secede" class="mw-redirect" title="Secede">secede</a> from the Union,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while North Carolina was the second to last state to secede. South Carolina was generally one of the strongest supporters of the <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederacy</a>. The war began in Charleston, South Carolina, where cadets of the South Carolina Military Academy, known as <a href="/wiki/The_Citadel,_The_Military_College_of_South_Carolina" class="mw-redirect" title="The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina">The Citadel</a>, fired the opening shots at the Union Ship <i><a href="/wiki/Star_of_the_West" title="Star of the West">Star of the West</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> North Carolina was also a key Confederate state, raising and supplying many regiments of soldiers to the Confederacy.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At Gettysburg, one in four Confederate soldiers was from North Carolina, despite the fact that some North Carolinians (especially in the western part of the state) refused to support the Confederacy.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> North Carolina's Civil War governor, <a href="/wiki/Zebulon_Vance" title="Zebulon Vance">Zebulon Vance</a>, was an outspoken critic of Confederate President <a href="/wiki/Jefferson_Davis" title="Jefferson Davis">Jefferson Davis</a> and frequently refused to obey Davis's orders for reinforcements and supplies; Vance insisted the soldiers and supplies would be needed for North Carolina's Confederate effort. However, during the seven days' battles, North Carolina did send large numbers of troops for the general aid of the South as a whole.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Carolinas were both instrumental in keeping the Confederacy alive, because of their deepwater ports in <a href="/wiki/Wilmington,_North_Carolina" title="Wilmington, North Carolina">Wilmington</a> and Charleston. These two cities were key in supplying Southern armies with weapons, clothing, and ammunition, and producing food and provisions for Southern civilians.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Southern_Unionist" title="Southern Unionist">Unionist</a> presence would persist throughout North Carolina during the Civil War, with North Carolina forming its own <a href="/wiki/List_of_North_Carolina_Union_Civil_War_units" title="List of North Carolina Union Civil War units">Union Army regiments</a>. In South Carolina, no Union Army regiments were formed due to a smaller unionist presence, although the <a href="/wiki/Upstate_South_Carolina" title="Upstate South Carolina">Upstate</a> region of the state was a haven for Confederate Army deserters and resisters, as they used the Upstate topography and traditional community relations to resist service in the Confederate ranks.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carolinas&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The culture of the Carolinas is a distinct subset of larger <a href="/wiki/Culture_of_the_Southern_United_States" title="Culture of the Southern United States">Southern culture</a>. Notably, the coastal Carolinas region was settled by <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Europe" title="Ethnic groups in Europe">Europeans</a> over a century before the inland regions of the South.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There was a particular early influence of <a href="/wiki/Culture_of_the_Caribbean" title="Culture of the Caribbean">Caribbean culture</a>, especially from the English colony of <a href="/wiki/Barbados" title="Barbados">Barbados</a>; from which came many of the early governors during the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Carolina" title="Province of Carolina">unified period</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Though the two states both make up part of the Southern United States, there are historically a number of differences in the settlement patterns, political development, and economic growth between North and South Carolina. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carolinas&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During most of the 20th century, South Carolina was a bastion of the "<a href="/wiki/Solid_South" title="Solid South">solid Democratic South</a>" with almost no <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> officeholders, and the state frequently elected politicians who were outspoken supporters of <a href="/wiki/Racial_segregation" title="Racial segregation">racial segregation</a>. North Carolina, while mostly <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a>, contained a large Republican minority – the state voted Republican in the presidential election of 1928 and elected several Republican congressmen, governors, and senators from 1868 to 1928 – and North Carolina was widely known as one of the more progressive Southern states on the issue of segregation and civil rights. In 1947, the journalist <a href="/wiki/John_Gunther" title="John Gunther">John Gunther</a> wrote, "that North Carolina is by a good deal the most progressive Southern state will, I imagine, be agreed to by almost everybody."<sup id="cite_ref-Gunther1947_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gunther1947-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the other hand, he described South Carolina as "one of the poorest American states, and probably one of the balkiest."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In describing the differences between the two states, Gunther noted that, in 1947, divorce in North Carolina "may be granted simply on the ground of absence of cohabitation; South Carolina is the one American state in which divorce is not possible."<sup id="cite_ref-Gunther1947_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gunther1947-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite North Carolina being a <a href="/wiki/Swing_state" title="Swing state">swing state</a> in presidential elections since the early 21st century, and South Carolina being one that reliably <a href="/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states" title="Red states and blue states">votes for Republican presidential candidates</a>, they are technically the country's two most politically similar states, according to a comparison of the states along a range of 19 variables performed by the statistician <a href="/wiki/Nate_Silver" title="Nate Silver">Nate Silver</a> in 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-Silver_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Silver-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carolinas&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Historically, like much of the South, the Carolinas economy was one based around agriculture production. The predominance of certain crops would help influence the regional economy: </p> <blockquote><p>Like other [Southern] states, until after <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, North Carolina remained primarily a region of <a href="/wiki/Smallholding" title="Smallholding">small farms</a> and factories heavily dependent on just a few labor-intensive crops, relying on <a href="/wiki/Sharecropping" title="Sharecropping">sharecropping</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tenant_farmer" title="Tenant farmer">tenancy</a>, especially for black laborers. The Carolinas are distinct for their economic dependence on tobacco as well as on cotton and rice, and for their many small-scale furniture, <a href="/wiki/Textile_industry" title="Textile industry">textile</a>, and tobacco factories.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Uptown_Charlotte_2018_taking_by_DJI_Phantom_4_pro.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Uptown_Charlotte_2018_taking_by_DJI_Phantom_4_pro.jpg/312px-Uptown_Charlotte_2018_taking_by_DJI_Phantom_4_pro.jpg" decoding="async" width="312" height="197" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Uptown_Charlotte_2018_taking_by_DJI_Phantom_4_pro.jpg/468px-Uptown_Charlotte_2018_taking_by_DJI_Phantom_4_pro.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Uptown_Charlotte_2018_taking_by_DJI_Phantom_4_pro.jpg/624px-Uptown_Charlotte_2018_taking_by_DJI_Phantom_4_pro.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4853" data-file-height="3065" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Charlotte,_North_Carolina" title="Charlotte, North Carolina">Charlotte, North Carolina</a> skyline in 2018, the largest city and metro area of the Carolinas.</figcaption></figure> <p>These industries gave the Carolinas, particularly North Carolina, a more significant industrial base than most Southern states. As <a href="/wiki/Mechanization" title="Mechanization">mechanization</a> increased in farming, along with textiles, apparel, and furniture jobs shifting because of <a href="/wiki/Globalization" title="Globalization">globalization</a>, combined with the decline of the tobacco industry,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> many rural and small urban communities suffered economically.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the late 20th century, both states began to experience growth in the technological and banking sectors, bringing jobs, population growth, and new economic industries.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These changes, as with earlier industrialization, were more pronounced in North Carolina, with South Carolina experiencing a slower rate of economic growth for several years.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since the 1980s, North Carolina has emerged as a financial hub with Charlotte becoming the second-largest financial district in the United States after New York City. Charlotte is headquarters to several major publicly traded corporations such as <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_America" title="Bank of America">Bank of America</a>, <a href="/wiki/Truist_Financial" title="Truist Financial">Truist Financial</a>, and the East Coast operations of <a href="/wiki/Wells_Fargo" title="Wells Fargo">Wells Fargo</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Centene_Corporation" title="Centene Corporation">Centene Corporation</a>, as well as six other Fortune 500 companies, including <a href="/wiki/Lowe%27s" title="Lowe's">Lowe's</a>, <a href="/wiki/Duke_Energy" title="Duke Energy">Duke Energy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nucor" title="Nucor">Nucor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Honeywell" title="Honeywell">Honeywell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brighthouse_Financial" title="Brighthouse Financial">Brighthouse Financial</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sonic_Automotive" title="Sonic Automotive">Sonic Automotive</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Boundary_between_the_states">Boundary between the states</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carolinas&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Boundary between the states"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Plotting_the_boundary">Plotting the boundary</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carolinas&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Plotting the boundary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the Prefatory Notes to Volume 5 of the <i>Colonial Records of North Carolina</i>, the process of determining the boundary between North and South Carolina began in 1720 "when the purpose to erect a third Province in Carolina, with <a href="/wiki/Savannah,_Georgia" title="Savannah, Georgia">Savannah</a> for its northern boundary"<sup id="cite_ref-Roots_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roots-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> began. On 8 January 1730<sup id="cite_ref-Carolana_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carolana-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> an agreement between the two colonies said for the border "to begin 30 miles (48 km) southwest of the <a href="/wiki/Cape_Fear_River" title="Cape Fear River">Cape Fear River</a>, and to be run at that parallel distance the whole course of said river;" The next June <a href="/wiki/Robert_Johnson_(governor)" title="Robert Johnson (governor)">Governor Robert Johnson</a> of South Carolina said the border should start 30 miles (48 km) southwest of the source of the Cape Fear "due west as far as the South Sea", unless the "<a href="/wiki/Waccamaw_River" title="Waccamaw River">Waccamaw River</a> lyes [sic] within 30 miles (48 km) of the Cape Fear river,"<sup id="cite_ref-Roots_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roots-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which would make the Waccamaw the boundary. North Carolina agreed to this until the discovery that the Cape Fear headwaters were very close to Virginia, which would not have "permitted any extension on the part of North Carolina to the westward."<sup id="cite_ref-Roots_27-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roots-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1732, <a href="/wiki/George_Burrington" title="George Burrington">Governor George Burrington</a> of North Carolina stated in <i>Timothy's Southern Gazette</i> that territory north of the Waccamaw was in North Carolina, to which Johnson replied that South Carolina claimed the land. Johnson also said that when the two met before the <a href="/wiki/Board_of_Trade" title="Board of Trade">Board of Trade</a> in London two years earlier, Burrington had "insisted that the Waccamaw should be the boundary from its mouth to its head,"<sup id="cite_ref-Roots_27-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roots-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while South Carolina agreed the border should be located 30 miles (48 km) from the <a href="/wiki/River_mouth" title="River mouth">mouth</a>, not the source. Johnson said this was "only a mistake in wording it."<sup id="cite_ref-Roots_27-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roots-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Both Carolinas selected commissioners to survey the line between them. The plan called for the line to run northwest to <a href="/wiki/35th_parallel_north" title="35th parallel north">35 degrees latitude</a>, unless the <a href="/wiki/Pee_Dee_River" title="Pee Dee River">Pee Dee River</a> was reached first, in which case it would run along the Pee Dee to 35 degrees north. Then the line would run west to <a href="/wiki/Catawba,_South_Carolina" title="Catawba, South Carolina">Catawba town</a>, though if the town were north of the line, the line was to run around Catawba to keep it in South Carolina.<sup id="cite_ref-Roots_27-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roots-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 1735, the surveyors went from the Cape Fear westward 30 miles (48 km) along the coast. Then they turned northwest and marked the location with stakes. The surveyors agreed to meet again on September 18. However, only the North Carolina team returned at that time, extending the line northwest 70 miles (110 km). The South Carolina team arrived in October and followed the previous line for only 40 miles (64 km) because they had not been paid. A deputy surveyor marked where the Pee Dee crossed the 35th parallel. An extension of the line in 1737 ran 22 miles (35 km) to a stake in a meadow.<sup id="cite_ref-Roots_27-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roots-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the stake placed at the endpoint of the survey was 12 miles (19 km) too far south.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1764, a second extension ran 62 miles (100 km) westward. In 1772, after making adjustments to keep the <a href="/wiki/Catawba_people" title="Catawba people">Catawba Indians</a> in South Carolina, "extended in a due west course from the confluence of the north and south forks of the <a href="/wiki/Catawba_River" title="Catawba River">Catawba River</a> to <a href="/wiki/Tryon,_North_Carolina" title="Tryon, North Carolina">Tryon Mountain</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-Roots_27-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roots-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, this extension was based on the erroneous position of the 1737 stake, removing 422,000 acres (1,710 km<sup>2</sup>) from South Carolina.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Caldwell" title="Joseph Caldwell">Joseph Caldwell</a>, president of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill" title="University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</a>, found that the line west of the Pee Dee did not run along the 35th parallel, but 12 miles (19 km) to the south. However, the western part of the line ran far enough to the north to make up for the difference.<sup id="cite_ref-Roots_27-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roots-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> West of this point the border was shifted to run north of the 35th parallel so that the total areas of the states would return to what was intended, although the accuracy of this part of the survey was marred by a <a href="/wiki/Magnetic_anomaly" title="Magnetic anomaly">magnetic anomaly</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Charlotte,_North_Carolina" title="Charlotte, North Carolina">Charlotte, North Carolina</a> area.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_29-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>North Carolina did not agree to the line of 1772 until 1813.<sup id="cite_ref-Roots_27-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roots-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 1905 survey determined the border between <a href="/wiki/Scotland_County,_North_Carolina" title="Scotland County, North Carolina">Scotland County, North Carolina</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marlboro_County,_South_Carolina" title="Marlboro County, South Carolina">Marlboro County, South Carolina</a>. A 1928 survey decided the border between <a href="/wiki/Horry_County,_South_Carolina" title="Horry County, South Carolina">Horry County, South Carolina</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brunswick_County,_North_Carolina" title="Brunswick County, North Carolina">Brunswick</a> and <a href="/wiki/Columbus_County,_North_Carolina" title="Columbus County, North Carolina">Columbus counties</a> in North Carolina.<sup id="cite_ref-Beam_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beam-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Recent_history">Recent history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carolinas&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Recent history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the mid-1990s, <a href="/wiki/Duke_Power" class="mw-redirect" title="Duke Power">Duke Power</a> determined that the border between the Carolinas needed to be re-surveyed, as the company was selling and donating land in the Jocassee Gorge area, which included parts of both states.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_29-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also, with more people living outside cities, the precise boundaries of fire, tax, and school district lines needed to be known. This was especially a problem in the mountains, where people had previously lived in valleys, not on the ridges where the border was. A 15-year plan to re-establish the boundary began, using maps from the 1813–1815 survey and <a href="/wiki/Global_Positioning_System" title="Global Positioning System">GPS</a> technology. A few stone markers still read, "NC/SC 1815 <a href="/wiki/Anno_Domini" title="Anno Domini">AD</a>"<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but other locations were marked with trees which no longer stand.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_29-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>South Carolina had recently been involved in a costly legal battle with Georgia over a small number of islands in the <a href="/wiki/Savannah_River" title="Savannah River">Savannah River</a>, and wanted to avoid the expense of a lawsuit regarding the North Carolina border, so the two states agreed in 1993 to cooperate in resurveying the border. The effort included using colonial-era maps to reconstruct the positions of trees marking the border that had long since died, and tracking down the original positions of stone markers that had been moved.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_29-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After 18 years and $980,000, it was predicted that the process of determining the border between the Carolinas would be complete in 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-Beam_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beam-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Financial problems delayed the last survey until October 2012, meaning the results were not expected to be known until Spring 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-Delay_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Delay-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was found that a gas station and 30 homes could change states. Lake Wylie Mini Market<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> has been located in South Carolina, along <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_321" title="U.S. Route 321">U.S. Route 321</a>, and the move to North Carolina would result in <a href="/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_States" title="Fuel taxes in the United States">higher gas taxes</a> and change <a href="/wiki/Alcohol_laws_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcohol laws of the United States">laws on beer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fireworks#United_States" title="Fireworks">fireworks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The state legislatures involved expect to pass laws alleviating the concerns those changing states would face.<sup id="cite_ref-Delay_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Delay-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Joint Boundary Commission met in February 2014 in <a href="/wiki/Monroe,_North_Carolina" title="Monroe, North Carolina">Monroe, North Carolina</a>, to determine what actions still needed to be taken. The persons living in 50 homes that changed states would have to get driver's licenses and <a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">register to vote</a> in their new states. Legislative action could allow people to keep utilities, avoid back taxes to the new state, and continue in the same schools. Lake Wylie Minimarket could be <a href="/wiki/Grandfather_clause" title="Grandfather clause">grandfathered</a>, or <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">Congress</a> could change the defined border at the store's location, though the commission intended to avoid such an action.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of August 2014, the states were expected to pass legislation to mitigate many of the negative impacts to affected landowners.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_29-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On June 1, 2016, the <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina_House_of_Representatives" title="South Carolina House of Representatives">South Carolina House of Representatives</a> passed a bill setting the border. North Carolina's <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_Senate" title="North Carolina Senate">Senate</a> also passed a bill, which also had to clear the <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_House_of_Representatives" title="North Carolina House of Representatives">House</a>. <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_North_Carolina" title="Governor of North Carolina">North Carolina Governor</a> <a href="/wiki/Pat_McCrory" title="Pat McCrory">Pat McCrory</a> signed his state's bill in June. Three families who actually lived in North Carolina had South Carolina addresses, and 16 South Carolina residents had believed they lived in North Carolina.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-McCrory_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCrory-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On December 9, 2016, McCrory announced that he signed a four-page executive order formally defining the border between the two states based on the 20 years of work.<sup id="cite_ref-McCrory_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCrory-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Major_population_centers">Major population centers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carolinas&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Major population centers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Combined_Statistical_Areas">Combined Statistical Areas</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carolinas&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Combined Statistical Areas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption><big>The most populous combined statistical areas of the Carolinas</big><br /><br /> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Rank </th> <th>CSA </th> <th>Population (2019) </th> <th>Population (2010) </th> <th>Change </th> <th>Constituent <a href="/wiki/Combined_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Combined Statistical Area">CSA</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000100000000000000♠">1</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_metropolitan_area" title="Charlotte metropolitan area">Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC Combined Statistical Area</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,797,636 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,402,623 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7001164400000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+16.44%</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia,_NC-SC_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area">Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Shelby,_NC_Micropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Shelby, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area">Shelby, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Albemarle,_NC_Micropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Albemarle, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area">Albemarle, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000200000000000000♠">2</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Research_Triangle" title="Research Triangle">Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC Combined Statistical Area</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,079,687 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,740,185 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7001195100000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+19.51%</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Raleigh,_NC_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Raleigh, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area">Raleigh, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Durham-Chapel_Hill,_NC_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Durham-Chapel Hill, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area">Durham-Chapel Hill, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Dunn,_NC_Micropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Dunn, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area">Dunn, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Oxford,_NC_Micropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area">Oxford, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Sanford,_NC_Micropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanford, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area">Sanford, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Henderson,_NC_Micropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Henderson, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area">Henderson, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000300000000000000♠">3</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Piedmont_Triad" title="Piedmont Triad">Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, NC Combined Statistical Area</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,689,151 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,589,200 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7000629000000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+6.29%</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greensboro-High_Point,_NC_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Greensboro-High Point, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area">Greensboro-High Point, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Winston-Salem,_NC_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Winston-Salem, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area">Winston-Salem, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Burlington,_NC_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Burlington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area">Burlington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Mount_Airy,_NC_Micropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Mount Airy, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area">Mount Airy, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000400000000000000♠">4</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Upstate_South_Carolina" title="Upstate South Carolina">Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC Combined Statistical Area</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,475,235 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,336,656 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7001103699999999999♠"></span><span style="color:green">+10.37%</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greenville-Anderson,_SC_MSA" class="mw-redirect" title="Greenville-Anderson, SC MSA">Greenville-Anderson, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Spartanburg,_SC_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Spartanburg, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area">Spartanburg, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Greenwood,_SC_Micropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Greenwood, SC Micropolitan Statistical Area">Greenwood, SC Micropolitan Statistical Area</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Seneca,_SC_Micropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Seneca, SC Micropolitan Statistical Area">Seneca, SC Micropolitan Statistical Area</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Gaffney,_SC_Micropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaffney, SC Micropolitan Statistical Area">Gaffney, SC Micropolitan Statistical Area</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000500000000000000♠">5</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Columbia-Orangeburg-Newberry,_SC_Combined_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Columbia-Orangeburg-Newberry, SC Combined Statistical Area">Columbia-Orangeburg-Newberry, SC Combined Statistical Area</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">963,048 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">897,607 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7000729000000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+7.29%</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Columbia,_SC_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Columbia, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area">Columbia, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Orangeburg,_SC_Micropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Orangeburg, SC Micropolitan Statistical Area">Orangeburg, SC Micropolitan Statistical Area</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Newberry,_SC_Micropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Newberry, SC Micropolitan Statistical Area">Newberry, SC Micropolitan Statistical Area</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000600000000000000♠">6</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fayetteville-Lumberton-Laurinburg,_NC_Combined_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Fayetteville-Lumberton-Laurinburg, NC Combined Statistical Area">Fayetteville-Lumberton-Laurinburg, NC Combined Statistical Area</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">854,826 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">797,499 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7000719000000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+7.19%</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fayetteville,_NC_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Fayetteville, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area">Fayetteville, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Lumberton,_NC_Micropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Lumberton, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area">Lumberton, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Laurinburg,_NC_Micropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Laurinburg, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area">Laurinburg, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000700000000000000♠">7</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Myrtle_Beach-Conway,_SC-NC_Combined_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Myrtle Beach-Conway, SC-NC Combined Statistical Area">Myrtle Beach-Conway, SC-NC Combined Statistical Area</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">559,581 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">436,880 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7001280900000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+28.09%</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Myrtle_Beach-Conway-North_Myrtle_Beach,_SC-NC_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC Metropolitan Statistical Area">Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC Metropolitan Statistical Area</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Georgetown,_SC_Micropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgetown, SC Micropolitan Statistical Area">Georgetown, SC Micropolitan Statistical Area</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000800000000000000♠">8</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Asheville-Marion-Brevard,_NC_CSA" class="mw-redirect" title="Asheville-Marion-Brevard, NC CSA">Asheville-Marion-Brevard, NC Combined Statistical Area</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">542,821 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">502,944 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7000793000000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+7.93%</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Asheville,_NC_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Asheville, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area">Asheville, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Brevard,_NC_Micropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Brevard, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area">Brevard, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas">Metropolitan Statistical Areas</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carolinas&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Metropolitan Statistical Areas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption><big>The most populous metropolitan statistical areas of the Carolinas</big><br /><br /> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Rank </th> <th>MSA </th> <th>Population (2019) </th> <th>Population (2010) </th> <th>Change </th> <th>Encompassing <a href="/wiki/Combined_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Combined Statistical Area">CSA</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000100000000000000♠">1</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_metropolitan_area" title="Charlotte metropolitan area">Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,636,883 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,217,012 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7001189400000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+18.94%</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_metropolitan_area" title="Charlotte metropolitan area">Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC Combined Statistical Area</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000200000000000000♠">2</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Research_Triangle" title="Research Triangle">Raleigh-Cary, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,390,785 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,130,490 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7001230200000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+23.02%</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Research_Triangle" title="Research Triangle">Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC Combined Statistical Area</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000300000000000000♠">3</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greenville-Anderson,_SC_MSA" class="mw-redirect" title="Greenville-Anderson, SC MSA">Greenville-Anderson, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">920,477 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">824,112 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7001116900000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+11.69%</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Upstate_South_Carolina" title="Upstate South Carolina">Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC Combined Statistical Area</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000400000000000000♠">4</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Columbia,_SC_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Columbia, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area">Columbia, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">838,433 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">767,598 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7000923000000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+9.23%</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Columbia-Orangeburg-Newberry,_SC_Combined_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Columbia-Orangeburg-Newberry, SC Combined Statistical Area">Columbia-Orangeburg-Newberry, SC Combined Statistical Area</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000500000000000000♠">5</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charleston-North_Charleston,_SC_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Charleston-North Charleston, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area">Charleston-North Charleston, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">802,122 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">664,607 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7001206900000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+20.69%</span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000600000000000000♠">6</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greensboro-High_Point,_NC_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Greensboro-High Point, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area">Greensboro-High Point, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">771,851 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">723,801 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7000664000000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+6.64%</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Piedmont_Triad" title="Piedmont Triad">Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, NC Combined Statistical Area</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000700000000000000♠">7</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Winston-Salem,_NC_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Winston-Salem, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area">Winston-Salem, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">676,008 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">640,595 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7000553000000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+5.53%</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Piedmont_Triad" title="Piedmont Triad">Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, NC Combined Statistical Area</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Urban_areas">Urban areas</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carolinas&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Urban areas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption><big>The most populous urban areas of the Carolinas</big><br /><br /> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Rank </th> <th>Urban Area </th> <th>Population (2010) </th> <th>Population (2000) </th> <th>Change </th> <th>Land Area<br />(sq mi) </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000100000000000000♠">1</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charlotte,_North_Carolina" title="Charlotte, North Carolina">Charlotte, NC-SC</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,249,442 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">758,927 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7001646300000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+64.63%</span> </td> <td>741.5 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000200000000000000♠">2</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Raleigh,_North_Carolina" title="Raleigh, North Carolina">Raleigh, NC</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">884,891 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">541,527 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7001634100000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+63.41%</span> </td> <td>518.1 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000300000000000000♠">3</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Columbia,_South_Carolina" title="Columbia, South Carolina">Columbia, SC</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">549,777 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">420,537 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7001307300000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+30.73%</span> </td> <td>380.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000400000000000000♠">4</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charleston-North Charleston, SC</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">548,404 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">423,410 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7001295200000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+29.52%</span> </td> <td>293.4 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000500000000000000♠">5</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greenville,_South_Carolina" title="Greenville, South Carolina">Greenville, SC</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">400,492 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">302,194 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7001325300000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+32.53%</span> </td> <td>320.3 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000600000000000000♠">6</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Winston-Salem,_North_Carolina" title="Winston-Salem, North Carolina">Winston-Salem, NC</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">391,024 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">299,290 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7001306500000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+30.65%</span> </td> <td>322.6 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000700000000000000♠">7</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Durham,_North_Carolina" title="Durham, North Carolina">Durham, NC</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">347,602 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">287,796 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7001207800000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+20.78%</span> </td> <td>181.7 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000800000000000000♠">8</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greensboro,_North_Carolina" title="Greensboro, North Carolina">Greensboro, NC</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">311,810 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">267,884 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7001164000000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+16.40%</span> </td> <td>185.2 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Counties">Counties</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carolinas&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Counties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption><big>The most populous counties of the Carolinas</big><br /><br /> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Rank </th> <th>County </th> <th>Population (2023)<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Population (2020) </th> <th>Change </th> <th>Area<br />(sq mi) </th> <th>Primary City </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000100000000000000♠">1</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wake_County,_North_Carolina" title="Wake County, North Carolina">Wake County, North Carolina</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,190,275 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,129,410 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7000538999999999999♠"></span><span style="color:green">+5.39%</span> </td> <td>857 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Raleigh,_North_Carolina" title="Raleigh, North Carolina">Raleigh</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000200000000000000♠">2</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mecklenburg_County,_North_Carolina" title="Mecklenburg County, North Carolina">Mecklenburg County, North Carolina</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,163,701 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,115,482 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7000432000000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+4.32%</span> </td> <td>546 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charlotte,_North_Carolina" title="Charlotte, North Carolina">Charlotte</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000300000000000000♠">3</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greenville_County,_South_Carolina" title="Greenville County, South Carolina">Greenville County, South Carolina</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">558,036 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">525,534 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7000618000000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+6.18%</span> </td> <td>795 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greenville,_South_Carolina" title="Greenville, South Carolina">Greenville</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000400000000000000♠">4</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guilford_County,_North_Carolina" title="Guilford County, North Carolina">Guilford County, North Carolina</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">549,866 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">541,299 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7000158000000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+1.58%</span> </td> <td>658 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greensboro,_North_Carolina" title="Greensboro, North Carolina">Greensboro</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000500000000000000♠">5</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Richland_County,_South_Carolina" title="Richland County, South Carolina">Richland County, South Carolina</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">425,138 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">416,147 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7000216000000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+2.16%</span> </td> <td>772 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Columbia,_South_Carolina" title="Columbia, South Carolina">Columbia</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000600000000000000♠">6</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charleston_County,_South_Carolina" title="Charleston County, South Carolina">Charleston County, South Carolina</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">424,367 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">408,235 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7000395000000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+3.95%</span> </td> <td>1,358 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charleston</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cities">Cities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carolinas&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Cities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption><big>The major cities of the Carolinas</big><br /><br /> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Rank </th> <th>City </th> <th>Population (2018) </th> <th>Population (2010) </th> <th>Change </th> <th>Area<br />(sq mi) </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000100000000000000♠">1</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charlotte,_North_Carolina" title="Charlotte, North Carolina">Charlotte, North Carolina</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">872,498 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">731,424 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7001192900000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+19.29%</span> </td> <td>297.7 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000200000000000000♠">2</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Raleigh,_North_Carolina" title="Raleigh, North Carolina">Raleigh, North Carolina</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">469,298 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">403,892 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7001161900000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+16.19%</span> </td> <td>144.8 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000300000000000000♠">3</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greensboro,_North_Carolina" title="Greensboro, North Carolina">Greensboro, North Carolina</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">294,722 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">269,666 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7000928999999999999♠"></span><span style="color:green">+9.29%</span> </td> <td>131.2 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000400000000000000♠">4</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Winston-Salem,_North_Carolina" title="Winston-Salem, North Carolina">Winston-Salem, North Carolina</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">246,328 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">230,047 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7000708000000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+7.08%</span> </td> <td>133.7 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000500000000000000♠">5</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charleston, South Carolina</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">136,208 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">120,083 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7001134300000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+13.43%</span> </td> <td>127.5 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000600000000000000♠">6</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Columbia,_South_Carolina" title="Columbia, South Carolina">Columbia, South Carolina</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">133,451 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">129,272 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7000323000000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+3.23%</span> </td> <td>134.9 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="7000700000000000000♠">7</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greenville,_South_Carolina" title="Greenville, South Carolina">Greenville, South Carolina</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">68,563 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">58,409 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><span style="display:none" data-sort-value="7001173800000000000♠"></span><span style="color:green">+17.38%</span> </td> <td>28.8 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Professional_sports">Professional sports</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carolinas&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Professional sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Club </th> <th scope="col">League </th> <th scope="col">Sport </th> <th scope="col">City </th> <th scope="col">Stadium </th> <th scope="col">Established </th> <th scope="col">Championships </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Carolina_Panthers" title="Carolina Panthers">Carolina Panthers</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">NFL</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">Football</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charlotte,_North_Carolina" title="Charlotte, North Carolina">Charlotte, North Carolina</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bank_of_America_Stadium" title="Bank of America Stadium">Bank of America Stadium</a> </td> <td>1995 </td> <td>2 <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl" title="Super Bowl">Super Bowl</a> Appearances/<a href="/wiki/National_Football_Conference" title="National Football Conference">NFC</a> Conference titles, 6 Division titles (1-NFC West, 5-NFC South) </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_FC" title="Charlotte FC">Charlotte FC</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Soccer" title="Major League Soccer">MLS</a> </td> <td>Soccer </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charlotte,_North_Carolina" title="Charlotte, North Carolina">Charlotte, North Carolina</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bank_of_America_Stadium" title="Bank of America Stadium">Bank of America Stadium</a> </td> <td>2022 </td> <td><i>none</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Carolina_Hurricanes" title="Carolina Hurricanes">Carolina Hurricanes</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Hockey_League" title="National Hockey League">NHL</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ice_hockey" title="Ice hockey">Ice hockey</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Raleigh,_North_Carolina" title="Raleigh, North Carolina">Raleigh, North Carolina</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/PNC_Arena" class="mw-redirect" title="PNC Arena">PNC Arena</a> </td> <td>1997 </td> <td>1 <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Cup" title="Stanley Cup">Stanley Cup</a>, 2 Conference titles, 5 Division titles </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Hornets" title="Charlotte Hornets">Charlotte Hornets</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> </td> <td>Basketball </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charlotte,_North_Carolina" title="Charlotte, North Carolina">Charlotte, North Carolina</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Spectrum_Center_(arena)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spectrum Center (arena)">Spectrum Center</a> </td> <td>1988 </td> <td><i>none</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_Courage" title="North Carolina Courage">North Carolina Courage</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Women%27s_Soccer_League" title="National Women's Soccer League">NWSL</a> </td> <td>Soccer (women's) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cary,_North_Carolina" title="Cary, North Carolina">Cary, North Carolina</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/WakeMed_Soccer_Park" title="WakeMed Soccer Park">Sahlen's Stadium at WakeMed Soccer Park</a> </td> <td>2017 </td> <td>2 <a href="/wiki/NWSL_Playoffs" class="mw-redirect" title="NWSL Playoffs">NWSL Playoff Championships</a>, 1 <a href="/wiki/NWSL_Challenge_Cup" title="NWSL Challenge Cup">NWSL Challenge Cup</a>, 3 <a href="/wiki/NWSL_Shield" title="NWSL Shield">NWSL Shields</a> (best regular-season record) </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Hounds" title="Charlotte Hounds">Charlotte Hounds</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Lacrosse" title="Major League Lacrosse">MLL</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lacrosse" title="Lacrosse">Lacrosse</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charlotte,_North_Carolina" title="Charlotte, North Carolina">Charlotte, North Carolina</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/American_Legion_Memorial_Stadium" title="American Legion Memorial Stadium">American Legion Memorial Stadium</a> </td> <td>2011 </td> <td><i>none</i> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The Carolinas have three professional sports teams in the <a href="/wiki/Major_professional_sports_leagues_in_the_United_States_and_Canada" title="Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada">Big Four major leagues</a>: the <a href="/wiki/Carolina_Panthers" title="Carolina Panthers">Carolina Panthers</a> of the <a href="/wiki/NFL" class="mw-redirect" title="NFL">NFL</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Hornets" title="Charlotte Hornets">Charlotte Hornets</a> of the <a href="/wiki/NBA" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA">NBA</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Carolina_Hurricanes" title="Carolina Hurricanes">Carolina Hurricanes</a> of the <a href="/wiki/NHL" class="mw-redirect" title="NHL">NHL</a>. Supported by both states, the three teams are all based in NC, with two in Charlotte and the third in Raleigh. </p><p>Professional sports franchises in the Carolinas first formed during the late 20th century. The oldest pro team in the Carolinas, the NBA's Charlotte Hornets, were established in 1988, while the youngest, <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Soccer" title="Major League Soccer">Major League Soccer</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_FC" title="Charlotte FC">Charlotte FC</a>, were established in 2019. The Hornets were known as the Bobcats from 2004 to 2014, and were renamed the Hornets again in May 2014, one season after the former New Orleans Hornets decided to rebrand themselves as the <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_Pelicans" title="New Orleans Pelicans">Pelicans</a>. At that time, the Hornets also regained sole ownership of the pre-relocation history of the original Charlotte Hornets. The Hurricanes formed in 1971 as the New England Whalers of the <a href="/wiki/World_Hockey_Association" title="World Hockey Association">World Hockey Association</a>. After the <a href="/wiki/NHL-WHA_merger" class="mw-redirect" title="NHL-WHA merger">NHL-WHA merger</a> in 1979, they joined the NHL as the <a href="/wiki/Hartford_Whalers" title="Hartford Whalers">Hartford Whalers</a> until 1997 when they relocated to <a href="/wiki/Raleigh,_North_Carolina" title="Raleigh, North Carolina">Raleigh, North Carolina</a>. Currently, the Hurricanes are the most successful after their 2006 <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Cup" title="Stanley Cup">Stanley Cup</a> championship marked the first professional sports title for the region. In 2019, a <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_MLS_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Charlotte MLS team">Major League Soccer team</a> was awarded to Charlotte, and begin play in 2022. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Bank_of_America_Stadium" title="Bank of America Stadium">Bank of America Stadium</a> currently hosts three major sporting events, the <a href="/wiki/Duke%27s_Mayo_Bowl" title="Duke's Mayo Bowl">Duke's Mayo Bowl</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Belk_Kickoff_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="Belk Kickoff Game">Belk Kickoff Game</a> and the <a href="/wiki/ACC_Championship_Game" title="ACC Championship Game">ACC Championship Game</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Motor_Speedway" title="Charlotte Motor Speedway">Charlotte Motor Speedway</a> hosts three major <a href="/wiki/NASCAR" title="NASCAR">NASCAR</a> events, the <a href="/wiki/Coca-Cola_600" title="Coca-Cola 600">Coca-Cola 600</a>, the <a href="/wiki/NASCAR_All-Star_Race" title="NASCAR All-Star Race">NASCAR All-Star Race</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_America_Roval_400" title="Bank of America Roval 400">Bank of America Roval 400</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carolinas&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Appalachian_English" title="Appalachian English">Appalachian English</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuisine_of_the_Southern_United_States" title="Cuisine of the Southern United States">Cuisine of the Southern United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Wagon_Road" title="Great Wagon Road">Great Wagon Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_Southern_United_States" title="Politics of the Southern United States">Politics of the Southern United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_American_English" title="Southern American English">Southern American English</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Californias" title="The Californias">The Californias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadas" title="Canadas">The Canadas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dakotas" title="Dakotas">The Dakotas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Floridas" title="The Floridas">The Floridas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Virginias" class="mw-redirect" title="The Virginias">The Virginias</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carolinas&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>John Gunther. <i>Inside USA</i>, Harper & Brothers, 1947.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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