@kuvasz,
I expected that ...down east= rural, poor, white, set the wayback machine for 1958... absolutely on racial lines..... there is a Johnston county web site I frequent...if you ask why I would reply why do people watch National Geographic specials.....and the virulent racial hatred is astounding. Down East is Christian and they define Christian as white....of course there are exceptions like our friend engineer...but Eastern NC is pretty primitive on the whole. IMO.