North Carolina and South Carolina were actually separated by Queen Anne when Carolina was still a British colony. By 1776, they both had a history of being independent colonies.All the colonies were treated as equals during the Revolution. So they remained separate and equal.
way back when SC and NC were just colonies, all of these rich folks decided to go to America. Rather than taking slaves with them, they took indentured servants (po folk who couldn t afford to go to America on their own ticket). So, the indentured servants worked off their debt and moved to NC while the rich folk stayed in SC. The ex-indentured servants didn t want to have anything more to do with the rich folk so they made their own colony. However, they were proud enough of their roots that they named it after the rich folks colony.
they was separated because the south wanted slavery the north didn t