Perhaps, because there is panache in being able to say you moved from Morristown, North Carolina to Pleasantburg, South Carolina. Whereas, when you move from Asheville to Greenville you merely trade one 'ville for another.
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"To sustain the life of a large, modern city in this cloying, clinging heat is an amazing achievement. It is no wonder that the white men and women in Greenville walk with a slow, dragging pride, as if they had taken up a challenge and intended to defy it without end." -- Rebecca West for The New Yorker, 1947
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