There's 4 pages of discussion here:
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1029403-wouldnt-there-be-places-in-the-world-that-are-untouched-by-nuclear-warfare/page__st__60__p__15960426__hl__untouched%20by%20war__fromsearch__1entry15960426
The general consensus is more or less no. We're not just looking at a war here, we're looking at the fall of international trade and civil order (No Food imports, No Mediciens, no factory produced doodads, no fertilisers or pestacides).
Are there areas where the bombs didn't fall? Sure. Are there areas where life goes on as before? Only in things like those lost tribes living in the Amazon that have absolutely no contact with the outside world.
such a force has had 200 odd years to rediscover North America, and seemingly hasn't.