The North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history . 148 THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE AID TO TKANSPORTATION. 149- Several explanations for such a sectional division may beadduced. First of all, the need for transportation was morenearly supplied in the east than in the west by natural inlandwaterways. Too, overland wagon routes were more cheaplyconstructed and maintained in the comparatively level eastthan in the hilly or mountainous west. Doubtless, also,many citizens of the east were unwilling that their sectionshould bear half or a larger share of the burden of under-
The North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history . 148 THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE AID TO TKANSPORTATION. 149- Several explanations for such a sectional division may beadduced. First of all, the need for transportation was morenearly supplied in the east than in the west by natural inlandwaterways. Too, overland wagon routes were more cheaplyconstructed and maintained in the comparatively level eastthan in the hilly or mountainous west. Doubtless, also,many citizens of the east were unwilling that their sectionshould bear half or a larger share of the burden of under-takings, the chief benefits of which would accrue to theirneighbors of the west. But such a motive was scarcely most responsible for themaking of State aid a sectional issue. The system of repre-sentation in the Legislature, as fixed by the Constitution of1776, soon resulted in a disproportionate representation ofthe two sections. If an imaginary line be drawn north andsouth across the State just west of Wake, the section to thewest of this line embraced, in 1815, twenty-four counties andtwo borou
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