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[@Dinh AaronMk]

Well, I was planning on starting off in Virginia, I heard there was a mountain range there that extends south into Georgia, doing a quick search up it's called the blue ridge mountains and as far as I can tell just looking at the topographical map of Virginia there are a few places where I can get fresh water, I'm not sure however how farming would look like, but just reading about the geography tells me it might not be possible in such a forested and mountainous area, this is of course not mentioning the possible effects of the super weapon strike nearby and how that would affect them and the area around them.

Demographic wise, I can see that there would probably be more Caucasians than there are African Americans that would survive, I'm not sure about Native-Americans or whether there are Native-Americans in Virginia. Religion would be heavily influenced by Christianism maybe even changed to a point where it can no longer be recognized as Christianism, and significant historical event that could be preserved would be the civil war thus having heavy connection with the Confederacy. This is as far as I got into making the Nation for the RP in terms of concept.
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The Blue Ridge is an extension of the Appalachian mountain range that extends from Georgia to New England, and the highland mountain strain of Christianity can be rather cultic.

Per agriculture: http://www.blueridgeheritage.com/heritage/agriculture/contemporary-farming

From what I know of the mountains of Virginia most of the area was mined for coal and some mountains blasted for that reason, and while the above mostly deals with the Carolina stretch of the range it's not inconceivable that the Virginia stretch would be without agriculture.

The [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxfire_(magazine)]Fox Fire[/url] series of books/magazines may also be a useful reference for the region because they were written to compile and record the customs and food ways of that very region, most of it passed down from the Native Americans (the Cherokees namely, most of which were moved to Oklahoma but there are groups that moved back or were never moved) or the Scotch-Irish that moved into the area. You can probably find some free downloadable PDFs of them first six or seven somewhere.

Byrd might know more, since being a Carolina son he can probably talk about it more.