Just curious, what exactly would be leveraged from the east? ECU? Pulp and paper forests? Hog farms? Cheap sprawling land that people could move to? The two ports are tiny. Eastern NC has been a tough nut to crack since the 1700’s. It does it’s own thing because it is its own thing. No amount of 4 lane roads leading from Raleigh have changed that (64, 264, 70, 40).
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