Border change between North, South Carolina gets closer

[Ford_Prefect]

1. After all this time they could have left it where it's been for decades,

by declaring the boundaries to be fit, legal and binding from the day declared. That would have recognized a reasonable common law answer to solve the problem. Instead we will have ridiculous and painful disruption of lives and businesses that have been where they still are for that time, living life and paying taxes and keeping the land.

A wise solution could have recognized common usage and deeds which no doubt go back more than 50 years and quite possibly much longer. Instead they will disrupt real lives and situations for the abstraction that each State is entitled exactly to its pound of flesh. Wisdom would advise it is not necessary to so collect it and that justice could also be served by acknowledging responsible and accepted usage as fair.

Stupid is as Stupid does, says I.