The United States of Barbecue. From the June 2011 “BBQ Nation” edition of Saveur Magazine.
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Linguistics map
Clearly, the red area in the above map can be attributed to slaw’s relation to barbecue in the south. Note that the darkest red area appears to be largely in NC, the “Cradle of Cue.”
Lots more great linguistics maps created by Joshua Katz, a NC State Ph. D student in statistics here (Go State!).
-Monk