[RandyT0001]

Originally Posted by midnight77

So, bp weapons, muzzle and breech loading. "Military" weapons are 1866 winchester esque, no actual military in the region, just part time militias. People have knowledge of modern medicine, just not the tools. They can vaccinate, but not treat cancer, if you understand. They jury-rig what they can, but farmers go without tractors outside of certain high tech city-states and electricity is little used outside of windmill power run to radios and simple machines. NC has huge potash reserves, so trade in fertilizer exists. Tech is schizo, parts are 1850s and parts are surviving 150 year old equipment. So you'd have a town out of the 1850s only they have solar panels powering their radios, which are tube sets made in Asheville, now the Biltmore Republic, which controls much of the mountains.

If the Biltmore Republic has the ability to produce tube radios, early 20th century tech, while much of the piedmont and coastal regions are stuck with 1850's tech then the problem is not technical but political.