NC Gazetteer

Coastal Plain Dialect Region

A region in Cumberland County, Nash County, Duplin County, Dare County, Perquimans County, Columbus County, Martin County, Richmond County, Robeson County, Pender County, Onslow County, Pamlico County, Carteret County, Camden County, Craven County, Washington County, Jones County, Scotland County, Currituck County, Harnett County, Sampson County, Pitt County, Moore County, Brunswick County, Greene County, Hoke County, Chowan County, Johnston County, Northampton County, Edgecombe County, Halifax County, Wake County, New Hanover County, Gates County, Bertie County, Bladen County, Hertford County, Lenoir County, Franklin County, Beaufort County, Wilson County, Wayne County, Pasquotank County, Tyrrell County and Warren County
This is the geographic region where the Coastal Plains Dialect is spoken; the boundaries are fuzzy; the western border is just west of robeson county and cuts northeast to the virginia border; the southern border is the NC-SC border, the easternborder is the Atlantic Ocean, excepting the lands immediately surrounding the Pamlico Sound as well as the Outer Banks.