At the same time, a merger push was happening in neighboring Nash County.

These are the cities and towns in Nash County:

Before the war, outside of a couple of trips to Raleigh, he'd spent his whole life inside Nash County.

One day, maybe, he'd get back to Nash County and to his own concerns.

He never wanted to leave Nash County again.

Nash County was a clannish place.

But Nash County was overwhelmingly rural, even by the standards of North Carolina.

Nash County bootleggers simply flavor their winskey with apple cores.

I was thinking of moving up here to Nash County, buying myself a farm, and working it with free labor, white and black both.

"Ah, now this one from North Carolina is more like it: we have carried Nash County by three to two."