Y'all don't know what you're talking about and you don't know good BBQ!
You're not the first to call me a damn Yankee (I actually was a damn Yankee this weekend at a Civil War Reenactment...I could feel the hate coming from the audience there to watch our skirmish...it almost hurt my feelings when they clapped and cheered as I and my fellow blue-bellies fell over dead at the end of the battle!)
(I'd put a smiley to show that I'm teasing with you but my smileys have disappeared along with all of the coding and editing functions. Maybe one of the mod gurus will read this...as I'm having to recall functions from memory...)
Truth is, NC BBQ was the first. And everything else is a derivative of it. Fact.
And yes TW, you are right. Good brisket is decent, and bad brisket is shoe leather. Pork, even when bad, is not bad. That's why I prefer pork over beef. It's a vastly superior, less volatile meat to cook. Brisket has to be cooked slow, long and with an excellent grade/piece of meat. Beef by nature is grainy.
Nonetheless, Perry is a total dickwad for many other reasons.