GOING REDNECK
It’s huge! Ten days and a thousand miles into our roadtrip from Boston down to Georgia, my son Matthew and I arrived in North Carolina. It’s hard to comprehend the size of America until you get on the ground and attempt to traverse it.
North Carolina isn’t one of the states many British people know about. It’s approximately halfway between New York and Florida, with wide sandy beaches on its eastern coastline and the beautiful Appalachian Mountains in the west. Considered to be a southern state due to its Civil War history, it’s mocked by metropolitan Americans for being a ‘Redneck’ State.
Matthew explained that the further south we drove, the more redneck
