The first shot in what could be the great border war.

• Position: PEOPLE & POLITICS - Georgia and Tennessee - Brief article

THE FIRST SHOT IN WHAT COULD BE THE GREAT BORDER WAR of 2013 was fired in March when the Georgia Senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution to change its northern border with Tennessee to the 35th latitude, where, the state claims, it should have been in the first place--back in 1882. It was a bad survey, senators agree, that marked the northern boundary a mile south of where it should have been after Georgia gave up the Mississippi territory. What difference does...