North Carolina

[freebrickproductions]

Let NC greet all the new residents with neglected maintenance and thousands of county road signs riddled with buckshot and rural blight.

(Emphasis mine)

You act like that's really any different from literally any other state in the southeast, with maybe an exception for Florida.

[Mapmikey]

One thing NC is definitely doing, though may be a District thing:  Some large swaths of NC are no longer posting the SR 10xx routes on larger white rectangles.

Another is that the once ubiquitous white rectangle signs at most intersections with a distance to somewhere are quickly disappearing except in eastern NC.  Western NC used these to show road names or dead end road alerting, since many of the roads in the mountains don't go anywhere.