nicely stated rafter...
As an adopted citizen of this county (I moved down to lower my living costs) I understand both sides of that discussion very well....
When one visits east county whether it be Snohomish or Lewis one starts running into good folk who are descendants of the tar heels who started arriving here from North Carolina a little over a century ago to work in the logging camps......
Prior to the civil war North Carolina produced a lot of tar. During the war the sons of North Carolina distinguished themselves as the bravest and hardest fighting of all the confederate soldiers.... Though regiments were formed from towns, villages, and counties back then the confusion during and after a battle would often leave stragglers and this would resulted in some "non-north carlolinan's" to always be present in the ranks of the north carolina regiments...........
north carolina soldiers frowned on anyone running from a battle line and when an outsider turned and went the wrong way their standard response would be "I think we need to put some tar on their heels" and this was how North Carolina came to be known as the tar heel state....
25% of confederate casualties during the civil war were from North Carolina........
Tar Heels were also very involved in tax avoidance by way of making moonshine and it was their souped up delivery vehicles (souped up to be able to outrun the revenuers) that started the sport of automobile racing.................
Riffe lake is actually named after one of the early settlements (mostly tar heels) that was flooded by the dam...................
I have a banker friend from the local area who refuses to deal with anyone who lives east of about Mossyrock because he's afraid of having to go back into the woods and repossess something and accidently run into a moonshine operation....... but, personally, I've done a lot of driving, hunting, hiking and fishing on and from the back roads of east county and always found people to be very friendly and accomodating.... even had a couple of dudes named beezer and guber help me out when I got stuck in a snow drift one winter....
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